Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026. HSBC scores A on the Alion truth index.
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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Software Engineer.
Business: WEALTH & PREM SOLUTIONS TECH
Principal responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- Build and enhance mobile features using Kotlin/Java (Android) and/or Swift (iOS) to support core customer journeys and growth scenarios.
- Work with Product Owners, Designers, and Architects to translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical solutions and engineering designs.
- Contribute to mobile architecture: modularisation, dependency management, design patterns, navigation, and state management to ensure scalability and maintainability.
- Build and maintain automated testing (unit tests, UI tests, etc.).
- Support and optimise CI/CD and release processes to improve repeatability and stability of delivery.
- Participate in production readiness and operations collaboration: monitoring and alert optimisation, troubleshooting, defect fixes, performance tuning, and post-incident reviews/continuous improvement.
- Write and maintain engineering documentation (technical designs, runbooks, operating procedures) to remain audit-friendly and traceable.
- Collaborate with global teams across multiple regions to drive engineering standards and share best practices (e.g. Show & Tell / technical sharing sessions).
Requirements
- To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or above (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline).
- Strong native mobile development experience:
- Android: Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, Jetpack (e.g. ViewModel/Room/Navigation/Compose where applicable), threading and concurrency, performance and memory management.
- iOS: Swift, UIKit/SwiftUI where applicable, concurrency, networking, persistence, performance and memory management.
- Familiar with mobile engineering and build systems: Android Gradle ecosystem / iOS Xcode build, dependency management (SPM/CocoaPods, etc.).
- Strong mobile architecture and engineering practices: layered design, code reviews, refactoring, technical debt management, and testability-by-design.
- Familiar with automated testing and high-quality delivery: unit testing is essential; UI automation experience is a plus.
- Strong API integration skills: REST/JSON, error handling, retry/fallback resilience patterns, and basic observability awareness (logs, metrics, traces).
- Comfortable working in agile teams and proficient with collaboration tools such as Jira/Confluence.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to drive delivery across teams and regions.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.
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