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HSBC Markets and Securities Services (MSS) is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The role is within MSS IT - a department of HSBC Technology Services (HTS) - providing IT application development and support services to Business and IT teams within HSBC MSS.
Our businesses generate millions of transactions across a range of financial markets. Our teams design and develop modern systems covering all aspects - trading in the markets, sales and customer tools, handling transactions, data analytics and building financial and regulatory reporting.
You will be working with one of the most cutting-edge languages and timeseries databases (KDB+/q), where speed is crucial, and volume is exceptionally large. You can grow to be a developer that can individually handle tasks from gathering requirements, through analysing data, to implementation and testing - having support from senior colleagues along the way. This eRisk Trading MI (Management Information) team designs and develops a fast real-time, time series database (KDB+/q) and application processing Terabytes of data per day - translating to billions records per day - providing services for performing quantitative analysis on vast amounts of financial markets order, trade and pricing data.
The team is part of the wider eRisk IT team, which develops pricing, trading, hedging and electronic algorithmic order systems for Global Foreign Exchange (GFX).
The application’s usage has a broad scope: it is used by front office business quantitative analysts for research and back-testing of trading algorithms, employed for the testing and operation of algorithmic trading systems and used for a wide range of data analytics as well as client, regulatory and internal management information.
There are increasing demands for services built within the application. The successful candidate will join a team of 5 created in our Krakow office, growing our existing global team, based in Hong Kong and London.
What you’ll do
Develop software and engineer services which handle billions of records, analyze large datasets and find value in the data.
Work on the prominent timeseries technology in financial markets.
Learn from scratch/build expertise in a functional programming and query language (KDB+/q) and how this is applied to data engineering.
Collaborate with and be part of a diverse and global team who focuses on fast delivery and user experience.
Understand the business context of what we do and engage directly with Traders and Quantitative Analysts as well as other Technologists.
What you need to have to succeed in this role
An analytical mind and be excited about problem-solving complex data engineering problems.
Strong computer science fundamentals or have worked with functional programming languages (e.g. Clojure, Haskell, Scala) or enjoy vectorization in Python, R, Matlab/Octave, Wolfram Mathematica.
A demonstrable passion for technology and automation, optimizing and improving solutions.
Demonstrable interest in understanding Data and how to combine and present it in various ways, dealing with large datasets and some basic statistical concepts.
Knowledge of or interest in learning about Linux, Server-Client technology, Cloud infrastructure, GCP.
Aptitude for understanding requirements and solving problems through proactive and collaborative engagement with teammates and owning a change from inception, to testing and releasing it to the users.
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)
Job Interviews with the hiring manager
We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
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Gross per month - Permanent
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