Software Engineer Lead

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. is a part of HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from over 6,300 offices in over 75 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. Currently, we are looking for a candidate for the position of:

Software Engineer Lead

Your career opportunity

Enterprise Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti- money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessment etc. and is dedicated to implement the most effective global standards to combat financial crime. 

The Global Social Network Analytics (GSNA) platform uses Big Data technology together with AI and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to identify potential financial crime risks that enable a global network of Investigators, Intelligence Analysts and Data Scientists to conduct effective intelligence-based investigations.  

This role is based at our Global Technology Center in Krakow. We are a young, fun and relaxed team of over 150 people closely following Agile Scrum framework with Scrum teams based in Poland, China and the UK. We run 2-week sprints with 6-week release cycles. 

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining robust, resilient and high-performance frontend or backend systems

• Accountability for delivery – takes ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution with minimal supervision

• Close collaboration with DevOps and Dev Engineers to ensure operational issues are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release/change

• Global coordination: engage with teams both on-site and remotely across the UK and China

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE REQUIRE:

• At least +8 years of experience in Software Engineering

• Strong technical expertise in Scala and Spark

• Big data technologies is essential with Devops and Cloud skills considered as secondary but valuable

• Previous cloud experience (GCP) 

• End to end systems architecture knowledge

• Knowledge of technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable

• Experience as a lead is preferred but not mandatory

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

• Financial support with trainings and education

• Social fund

• Flexible working hours 

• Free parking