Tech Lead (LP)
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Your career opportunity
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
On every application that you work on, you understand the architecture in and out, plus you always strive to improve it. You know how to get clarity on the requirement, communicate with stakeholders, break the tasks, estimate and set out a delivery schedule and most importantly deliver on time.
We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead, who will join our delivery team supporting development and maintenance of FICC Pricing Applications. A successful candidate must have strong knowledge and skills in back-end coding and tooling area to support various requirements coming from our business partners. We expect this person will play one of the key roles in the delivery team - not only when it comes to Java development but also in owning CI/CD + DevOps Tools.
What you'll do
Work on code development for new requirements and on fixing existing bugs/defects according to agreed standards and best practices.
Contribute to requirements gathering and delivery planning to meet our business partners' needs in both quality and on-time delivery aspect.
Consult closely with business stakeholders to understand their objectives and requirements, developing user stories in association with product owners, Business Analysts and lead technical solutions.
Identify transformation opportunities and automate.
Work with development team to map requirements to delivery schedules and pipelines, working with testing team to ensure appropriate test cases are executed against requirements.
Identify potential issues, reviewing solutions and recommending strategies for solving problems.
Provide support to technical lead responsible for the project delivery.
Conduct research - both in technology but also business process and strategy - to ensure knowledge of best practice needed to support delivery for business stakeholders
What you need to have to succeed in this role
Strong Java engineering experience (7+ years) as an individual contributor with the ability to mentor others.
A track record of driving platform improvements, including performance optimisation and production stability.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills. Hands-on experience in Agile projects.
Proven experience in Vertex, Spring Boot and microservices architecture, Elasticsearch and ELK.
Experience using monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus.
Exposure to message-driven architectures, working on JMS, IBM MQ / Artemis / Solace etc.
Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD and cybersecurity tools ex. Teamcity /Jenkins / JIRA/ Confluence / NexusIQ / CheckMarx and hands-on experience with RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or NOSQL DBs (e.g. MongoDB).
Familiarity with Unit Test / Regression Test / e2e Test and Sophisticated with Subversion tools ex. Git.
In-depth knowledge of Trade Life cycle & Straight Through Processing (STP).
Nice to have
Exposure to Fixed Income Cash and Derivative products.
Knowledge of regulatory reporting guidelines by various regulatory authorities.
Understanding of third-party tools like ION for pricing and market data.
High Frequency and Low latency coding.
Rust, Go, Python.
What we offer
The pay range for this role is 28 000 PLN - 32 000 PLN (monthly, gross).
Additional car allowance in the amount of 4786 PLN (monthly, gross).
Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.
We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.
Additional bonuses for recognition awards
Multisport card
Private medical care
Life insurance
One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
Cafeteria platform
Employee assistance program
Additional contributions to PPK scheme
Corporate parties & events
CSR initiatives
Nursery discounts
Financial support with trainings and education
Social fund
Flexible working hours
Free parking
If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
Online behavioural test
Telephone screen
Interview with the hiring manager