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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:
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 managment.
- 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. So far, we have performed 15,000 releases to build out our PTS and have demised the vendor platform in all trading sites.
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.
What you’ll do
- Create usable, efficient and elegant Java code.
- Build a micro-service based architecture.
- Monitor production and keep it stable.
- Apply and follow Foreign Exchange business requirements.
- Take responsibility for all aspects of delivering software to users.
- Work on development as well as automating testing and deployment of small and frequent releases.
- Communicate with the product owners and business on features and requirements.
- Follow the moto: Production availability of your service - if you build a service you own the service.
What you need to have to succeed in this role
- Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology.
- Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator.
- Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so.
- Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with Java 17+ (Concurrency, data structures, lock-free, wait free code, low latency, lambdas).
- Familiar with TDD, continuous integration, jUnit, continuous deployment and testing.
- Experience with REST and messaging technologies.
- Understanding of DevOps practices.
Nice to Have
- FX business knowledge an advantage, but focus is on technical skills.
- Demonstrates a passion for software development outside of work through involvement in open source, working groups etc.
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 and kindergarten 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