Tech Lead (Java)

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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-premise 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

• As a Tech Lead you will be responsible for the technical leadership of the team: this means designing the service as well as setting the technical direction for the service. 

• Be responsible for both the development and maintenance of the microservices in Counterparty Credit Risk.

• Be expected to cut code as well as be the technical lead.

• Work with overall delivery manager and other technical leads to evolve the architecture of the new system. 

• Lead and mentor the team that will be covering all aspects of delivering software to your users: development, automating testing and deployment of small and frequent releases.

• Ensure production availability of your service – if you build a service, you own the service.

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

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Experience of leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean environment.

• 7+ years of experience in designing, developing and operating distributed systems written in Java. Designing and developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Core Java and Spring (Hystrix, Eureka, Zuul, Sleuth, Feign, Ribbon).

• Experience using microservices (REST APIs). 

• Experience using Apache Beam and Apache Flink. 

• Cloud knowledge (preferred GCP).

• Experience with test driven development.

• Solid knowledge of DevOps practices.

• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions and ability to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems.

Optional/Nice to have

• Experience of distributed applications using in-memory stores, e.g. Redis.

• Familiar with automation tools like Jenkins, Ansible. 

• Knowledge of Relational Databases (Oracle, PgSQL).

Whate 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