Job description
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
Within HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Prime Finance Technology is a global team that works together to build innovative sales and trading systems for the Prime Brokerage and Equity Finance business clients. We strive to engineer performant, scalable, and reliable systems that enable our business to grow clients and revenue. We care about working together with our business partners towards realizing architectural principles of simplicity, efficiency, and transparency.
Prime Finance employs a varied technology stack to deliver value to the business. We aggressively pursue increased release cadence through the adoption of enhanced tooling and DevOps/Agile methodology. Our team values engineers with a growth mindset who love to learn new things, who are curious - whether that be learning about what our traders are doing or how to change our systems to be better. We are hungry for diverse ideas and encourage our engineers to challenge the status quo and guide us, both in terms of technological choices and overall design of the business solution.
About the Role
As a full-stack engineer, you will be working across the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, covering the inception, development, testing, release and ongoing maintenance of a product or service. You would be working with the business stakeholders, architects and other engineers in a culture of collaboration.
This position will work as a member of a highly skilled, agile development team. We are building systems for Synthetic business, used by Front Office/Middle Office and Back Office across the globe and we are seeking a dedicated professional who is a team player, self-motivated, and who achieves technological excellence in short timescales.
This is an extremely hands-on, delivery-focused, technical position involving a lot of analysis, coding, testing and interfacing with business users. A good knowledge of Equities Financing and especially at the synthetics business is highly desirable but a thirst for knowledge and the knack to apply that knowledge is just as good to us. There will be a high degree of teamwork and technical peer interaction involved.
Responsibilities
- Join an Agile pod that builds, maintains, and supports software for the Securities financing business line
- Responsible for analysis, design, and development of highly available, scalable software components along with functional and development team
- Maintain and enhance existing applications by implementing planned engineering changes as part of agile feature team
- Recommend development best practices for application improvement and development
- Code review based on four eye policy
- Support the infrastructure and the application you worked on. It includes production support responsibilities too
- Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery
- Must be a team player, willing to share and respecting team values
Requirements
You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role:
- 3 to 10 years of strong hands-on software development experience predominantly on Java Platform
- Experience in full stack development of Microservices/Application, Cloud from scratch including good exposure to database
- Expert in Java 8 and higher
- Strong Hands-on experience on Spring Framework
- Hands on experience in TDD/BDD based testing approach
- Good understanding of Microservices Architecture
- Good exposure to the Google Cloud Platform and DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins
- Good Experience on MS-SQL/Oracle DB, Cloud-SQL, BigQuery and good understanding of PL-SQL
- Knowledge of REACT and scalar programming
- Source Code control systems specially GIT
- Should be self-learner with the ability to design and develop end to end solution
- A strong and consistent focus on automation of the development and delivery pipeline
- Agile mindset and action oriented
- Strong communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Would be good experience with Investment Banking/Security Financing[i]domain
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.
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.