Senior Software Engineer (FX Options)

Senior Software Engineer (FX Options)

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Your career opportunity

We’re FX Options IT Poland, a technology department providing technology services and solutions for the Investment Bank businesses at HSBC. Systems we create enable transactions across multiple asset classes. Our teams work in partnership with the business counterparts to deliver high-throughput systems, from low latency trading applications to primary trading platforms. We manage our own architecture and build out our preferred solutions. 

FX Options IT has a proven track record of delivering critical front office pricing, trade lifecycle and risk management trading solutions.  The team covers all the aspects of FX Options pricing and risk management trading solutions.  A successful candidate will be working with a global team, that is spread over UK, Poland, Canada, and Guangzhou, to build a multi-tier, high availability system that covers a large range of derivative products and structures.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Java developer who will join our FX Options team in Krakow, Poland.

What you’ll do

• Gather requirements, design, develop, and test robust Java solutions; implement and provide second-line support for production systems.

• Deliver business objectives through agile methodologies, demonstrating ownership of mission-critical systems.

• Develop and deploy high-performance JVM-based systems, expanding trading to new venues and desks as needed.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to deliver new pricing and hedging functionality across multiple regions.

• Drive trading automation and participate in end-to-end architecture, design, and development activities, challenging the status quo for greater efficiency.

• Enhance testing and backtesting capabilities to reduce defects and accelerate strategy development.

• Build tools that integrate seamlessly with trading platforms and quantitative analytical tools, improving operational efficiency and decision-making.

• Conduct research in technology and business processes to ensure adoption of best practices and support business delivery.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience, with a strong track record of agile delivery and success in enterprise environments.

• Strong Java server-side development skills, including multi-threaded programming.

• Proven experience designing and implementing high-performance, low-latency, and distributed systems.

• Ability to deliver reusable, maintainable object-oriented or functional programming solutions.

• Familiarity with BDD/TDD practices and middleware technologies such as Solace/JMS is desirable.

• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Self-motivated, organised, and capable of independent problem-solving.

• Solid understanding of e-trading workflows, derivatives, and trading desk operations in large financial institutions.