HSBC Group

Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC, we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.  

In Canada, HSBC Global Services (Canada) Limited (HGCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited.  Operating in Toronto and Vancouver, HGCA is part of a global service company, delivering services to support the operating entities of HSBC Group.  We have different capabilities that provide tools and processes to facilitate the functions, business and entities with their service management responsibilities.  

About Us

MSS Tech is a c.7,000-strong diverse, talented, and resilient engineering group that partners with our business and wider-bank colleagues to deliver industry-leading technology services. Our clients feel safe in the knowledge that, for us, production always comes first, anything less is failure. We constantly challenge boundaries, whilst engineering with safety and security. Continually building on our strongest assets - our people, maximizing our potential, continuously stretching what it means to be a high performing organization.

 Who We Are

This role is working within the Market Securities & Services (MSS) division, where technology is central to all aspects of our business – for example electronic trading in the financial markets.

River is the first ever HSBC-built Cash FX primary trading system (PTS). We are a 170 strong global team located across New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, London and Krakow. The team covers a wide area of functions including:

• Risk delivers client facing applications including risk management
• Trade Workflow is responsible for trade booking and lifecycle
• Compute focuses on valuations
• RODS manages trade storage

What We Do

We are building an in-house platform to support all primary functions for FX Trading (pricing, booking, routing, risk management and valuations) which is replacing a vendor platform. Our pods adhere to the DevOps ethos and work closely with the FX traders. Everyone in the team develops and releases components of the system into production.

The Way We Work

• All our teams work in pods of 4-8 developers and work closely with the business
• We are not ‘order takers’ but responsible for the service we are developing
• For us that means:
• All our teams strive to do continuous delivery – we do small, incremental releases and follow agile practices
• We are empowered to use technology and tools to automate as much as possible
• We build small services and strive to break up monolithic systems where we have them
• Each small team is responsible for everything from the requirements to the development to running it in Production. If we build it, we own it.

 As our Java Engineer, you will:  

•  Creating usable, efficient and elegant Java code
• Building a micro-service-based architecture
• Monitoring production and keeping it stable
• Foreign Exchange business requirements

What Your Day will Look Like

 You and your teammates are responsible for all aspects of delivering software to users:

• Development
• Automating testing and deployment of small and frequent releases
• Speaking to the product owner and business on features and requirements
• Production availability of your service – if you build a service, you own the service