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.

About the Role

Equities Technology solves some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Shipping code early and often using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the center of everything we do.

We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment. We are looking for the brightest and best developers to take our capability forward.

The Structured Products Technology team runs the pricing & order management stack covering pre-trade client RFQs, retail market distribution, life cycle management and secondary markets.  

The team develops and maintains its own Structured Products OMS with in-house built pricing service.  The OMS comprises of a C# front end with a host of backend services written in C# and Java.

The team spans the 3 main trading hubs (Hong Kong, New York, London), with team members in multiple locations (Kraków, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, London, New York, Toronto and Paris).

Working as part of the Structured Products Technology team the candidate should be a Java expert, with prior coding experience in large-scaled complex systems, preferably in the financial industry.   Exposure to VBA will be valuable to migrate existing tools to strategic platform written in Java.  

The candidate is required to be involved in production support (via a rota) and be proactively engaged in improvements on automation.  With the right candidate, there is potential for the new hire to grow into a technical lead for the region.

As our Full Stack Java Engineer, you will:  

•          Building out strategic Order Management System (OMS), pricing and front-to-back booking/ lifecycle platforms
•          Contributing ideas related to implementation & architecture as part of a global development team
•          Dev ops and production support
•          Communicate directly with the Sales/Trading Desk and internal Technology teams and is able to range up and down the detail depending on your audience
•          Handle all phases of development (requirements analysis through to implementation to testing automation), establishing solid relationships and trust built on proven delivery
•          If a challenging role that pays very competitively and being part of a progressive team is for you, please apply and we look forward to meeting you

What your Day will Look Like

•          Partner with global Structured Product Platform (SPP) team and actively participate in various Agile team activities – reviewing, planning, retrospective, daily scrum, requirement grooming, etc
•          Work closely with regional and global business stakeholders for day-to-day activities as well as transformation projects
•          Manage design, implementation, and support of functionalities which are to be used globally
•          Promoting best engineer practices and champion changes
•          Participate on a global support rota as L0 and L1 support

You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role:  

• Strong Java skills
• Prior coding experience in large-scaled complex systems, familiar with concurrent processing
• Financial industry background with development experience in trading systems will be a huge plus
• Good knowledge of design principles, SDLC and a DevOps mindset
• Team player mindset with excellent communication skills

Skills preferred, but not mandatory:

• Working knowledge in VBA or C#
• Cloud technologies such as GCP or AWS
• Equity Derivatives experience
• The candidate is an excellent communicator and is comfortable communicating

In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in Canada. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position.  

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee’s overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a “bonus”). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle.  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.