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Your career opportunity
HSBC has built a successful FX and Commodities Derivatives Business over a number of years. Building upon HSBC’s strengths (global presence, customer and emerging markets focus) the business has grown to become a major player in the global derivatives market.

The primary aim of the FX and Commodities IT team is to develop and support the IT systems that allow the business to be successful. Calculations and compute function sits across all product lines of the GFX, supporting a number of products (FX Cash, FX Options, Commodities) and initiatives. Risk Management is an obvious focus of the team, with direct impact to Front Office. The business also a number of requirements for functional initiatives (Intraday & EOD Calculations and Scenarios, Regulatory integration, expansion to new products and HSBC sites and many more). These initiatives are tightly aligned with our technical strategy around distributed systems, cloud migration, accessibility and expansion to multiple customers and sites. The team’s ethos is to enable the business to grow and continue to generate revenue by delivering robust and scalable IT systems. Reducing manual process and operational risk is also a focus. The team operates in a full agile/ DevOps model. We also pride ourselves in promoting a diverse workforce where talented individuals with different backgrounds, personalities and skills can thrive.

You will act as full stack engineer of River team. Be able to deal with business and product owner independently for the requirement, implementation and support the system. Propose technical solution for the project/task you’re working on and be able to own the task throughout the development lifecycle. You are also expected to be a main contributor for the system implementation and solution for your project.


What you’ll do
    • Develop and deliver to production small nonbreaking iterative change that provides business value
    • Help consult on business requirements with specific input around technology capability and limitations
    • Help maintain and improve the stability and reliability of our production environments
    • Work closely with the business in London, Hong Kong, New York and other centres on a day-to-day basis and co-ordinate with other teams in China to ensure that the business and project needs are met.

What you need to have to succeed in this role
    • University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline. Minimum 5 years of development experience is required.
    • Solid and proficient skills in Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web Service, JSON, Postgresql is a plus.
    • Knowledge and experience of DevOps, Microservice, Restful API, and Devops tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Splunk, Jira/Confluence, Maven.
    • Able to directly communicate with business and drive the task/initiative. Good command of written and spoken English.
    • Track record in working on the delivery of complex deployment projects and under diversified/ matrix structure.
    • Strong business sense with good understanding in how IT systems impact business objectives, Foreign Exchange business knowledge is a plus.
    • Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills.
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver high quality results under tight schedule and high pressure.

What we offer
    • Competitive salary
    • Annual performance-based bonus
    • Additional bonuses for recognition awards
    • Multisport card
    • Private medical care
    • Life insurance
    • One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
    • 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 (for external candidates only)
    • Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
    • Interview with the hiring manager

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.

In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: krakow.recruitment@hsbc.com

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