Senior Software Engineer (CCR) (Investment Banking Tech)

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Your career opportunity

HSBC is the largest bank in Europe and is also one of the largest investment banks in the world. MSS IT provides technology solutions for its Global Banking and Markets business worldwide.

Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) management is a business-critical function within the bank. The CCR IT team provide the technology to enable the Counterparty Credit Risk exposure calculation across thousands of HSBC clients globally every day.

We are part way through a multi-year plan to build the next generation of Counterparty Credit Risk Engines which involves migration to Cloud platforms and replace vendor software by in-house developed analytic library. The new counterparty credit risk engine comprises micro services leveraging the latest open-source infrastructure and runs on Google Cloud Platform and on-premises infrastructures.

Technologies used by the team include Java SE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, GCP, Redis, REST APIs, Ansible, Jenkins.

HSBC and Traded Risk are heavily investing in an Agile culture with adoption of DevOps processes, CI/CD pipeline and Cloud Technologies. Traded Risk CCR IT is looking to initiate a brand-new development team in Krakow in 2023 as part of a long-term strategy to develop and support its platform in Europe.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team in its early stages and make a key contribution.

What you’ll do

⦁ Responsible for both the development and maintenance of the microservices in Counterparty Credit Risk Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.

⦁ Contribute to the full life-cycle of the product (including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation and measuring adoption).

⦁ Ensure test-driven development and close collaboration with team members in Asia, and stakeholders from Krakow, UK and Asia.

⦁ Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.

⦁ Mentor and coach other engineers.

⦁ Support the platform: incident resolution, monitoring, problem management.

⦁ Develop automated tooling to improve support functions.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

⦁ 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems written in Java.

⦁ Experience in designing and developing microservices (REST APIs), using Java and Spring Boot (Hystrix, Eureka, Zuul, Sleuth, Feign, Ribbon).

⦁ Practical experience in applying Test Driven Development.

⦁ Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies and business domain.

⦁ Solid knowledge of DevOps practices, agile processes and techniques.

⦁ Ensure software is developed up to highest standards matching modern software development principles: SOLID, KISS, DRY, YAGNI.

⦁ Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions, Previous experience of working in investment banking is a plus.

⦁ Should be able to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems. 

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 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 

⦁ Telephone screen 

⦁ Job interview with the hiring manager 

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!

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