HSBC

Senior Java Developer

HSBC$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on Java backend development experience in production environments
  • Expertise in modern Java services such as Spring/Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
  • Strong understanding of engineering principles: OO design, concurrency, and performance tuning
  • Experience with production-level operability, including monitoring, logging, and incident management
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions across geographically distributed teams
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Proficiency in testing disciplines, including unit and integration testing, and working with CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with FX Options, risk monitoring systems, Kafka, in-memory data stores, and regulated environments is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver enhancements and defect fixes for the FX Option Risk Monitoring System during North America business hours
  • Take complete technical ownership through analysis, design, build, testing, and post-release validation
  • Translate business needs into actionable and pragmatic technical solutions considering multiple factors
  • Collaborate with Product Owner, traders, and quant teams to clarify requirements and address ambiguities
  • Ensure system resilience, performance, security, and observability post-deployment
  • Investigate incidents and provide permanent fixes through triage and root-cause analysis
  • Manage impacts across various systems as the scope extends to the Trade Life Cycle
  • Lead initiatives for code quality, automated testing, CI/CD hygiene, documentation, and maintainable system design

Benefits

  • Tailored professional development opportunities
  • Comprehensive Total Reward Package
  • Mix of fixed and variable pay
  • Discretionary annual awards or bonuses
  • Wide range of competitive and flexible benefits
  • Support for improving health, well-being, financial stability, and lifestyle
Full Job Description
Join our Foreign Exchange (FX) Options technology team to deliver enhancements and fixes for the FX Option Risk Monitoring System during North America business hours, and over time contribute across the broader FX Options Primary Trading stack, including the Trade Life Cycle platform. You'll take senior technical ownership, drive design decisions, and strengthen local support capability through mentoring and engineering standards.

You will be responsible for:
  • Own delivery of enhancements and defect fixes for the FX Option Risk Monitoring System during North America business hours
  • Take end-to-end technical ownership: analysis, design, build, testing, release readiness, and post-release validation
  • Translat business needs into pragmatic solutions, making clear trade-offs across speed, risk, non Financial Reporting, tech debt, and cost
  • Partner with Product Owner, Front Office traders, and quant teams to clarify requirements and manage ambiguity
  • Ensure production outcomes: resilience, performance, security, and observability (logging/metrics/alerting)
  • Reduce incidents through effective triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent fixes
  • Manage cross-system impacts across integrated services and shared data flows as scope expands into Trade Life Cycle
  • Collaborate closely with the China-based technical lead and engineering team, with clear handovers across time zones
  • Lead engineering excellence in code quality, automated testing, CI/CD hygiene, documentation, and maintainable design

You will be successful in this role if you have
  • Senior, hands-on experience building and supporting Java backend systems in production with clear technical ownership
  • Strong experience with modern Java services (commonly Spring / Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices patterns)
  • Solid engineering fundamentals: OO design, concurrency, performance tuning, and clean code practices
  • Strong production mindset: operability-by-design, monitoring/alerting/logging, and incident management
  • Proven ability to drive technical decisions and deliver with distributed teams across time zones
  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Front Office/quant partners
  • Strong testing discipline (unit/integration) and experience working with CI/CD pipelines
  • Nice to have: FX Options / risk monitoring / trading systems experience; Kafka/event-driven patterns; Ignite/in-memory data; Prometheus/Grafana; regulated environments with strong controls/audit expectations

Working model: Toronto-based delivery manager; close partnership with a China-based development team and technical lead; primary coverage during North America hours.

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee's overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a "bonus"). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle.

About HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It is the second largest bank in Europe, with total assets of US$2.984 trillion (as of August 2021). HSBC traces its origin to a hong in British Hong Kong and its present form was established in London by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to act as a new group holding company in 1991; its name derives from that company's initials. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened branches in Shanghai in 1865 and was first formally incorporated in 1866. The company was renamed The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in 1989.
Learn more about HSBC
Size
219,763 employees
Market Cap
$124.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$5.2 billion
Founded
1880
5 Year Trend
-3.1%
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