Senior Software Engineer - Investment Banking Tech

Senior Software Engineer

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Your career opportunity

We're Markets & Securities Services 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 large Microservices platforms. We also perform architecture and cloud migrations.

As the use of digital assets and currencies (DAC), tokenisation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues to grow, this role will help build and implement innovative DAC technology solutions and services within Markets and Securities Services.  

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, deploy, automate, maintain and manage production system (Cloud/ non-Cloud) and non-production systems (Cloud / non-Cloud), to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of the same.
• Interact with infrastructure, change management, QA, DBA and application teams.
• Work independently on technical analysis, development and DevOps activities.
• Work with IT Ops/Support – providing required support to Blockchain/ DLT systems post go-live
• Evaluate existing applications, platforms and provides recommendations for improving performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications.
• Suggest architecture improvements and recommending process improvements.
• Ability be the first to try new technologies and be able to quickly produce proof of concept.
• Interpret business and IT requirements and provide solutions

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Good knowledge of Java based n-tier application (Spring framework).
• Any RDBMS or NoSQL Databases. PostgreSQL experience will be added advantage.
• Cloud experience, preferably GCP. 
• Overall development experience (5-8 years)
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles tooling and practices (Jenkins, Ansible).Ability to break / fix simple problems on CICD pipeline. 
• Proven experience of working with Production live service.
• Interest in or knowledge on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) with the flexibility to work with new technologies or languages in the Blockchain space. Any experience with DLT technologies like Ethereum, Corda, IBM Hyperledger Fabric, or DAML is a significant advantage.
• Self-motivated and highly professional with ability to lead and take ownership, responsibility to meet aggressive deadlines.

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 (for external candidates only)
• Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
• 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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