Electronic Trading Architect

HSBC Holdings plc; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc seeks a Full Stack Engineer to design, implement and deploy enhancements to its electronic trading platform. You will collaborate across time zones and automate toil to keep systems efficient and reliable.

The role requires 5+ years in low-latency or real-time software, advanced Java, Linux CLI, and experience with containers (Podman/Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes). Familiarity with Kafka/Aeron and data-driven profiling is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering of low-latency or real-time systems.
• Excellent Java proficiency, including concurrency, tuning, and memory management.
• Good command of Linux/UNIX command line interface.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Using agentic AI for software maintenance.
• Experience with container runtimes (Podman, Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with message passing systems such as Kafka and Aeron.
• Practicing data-driven optimizations (profiling, metrics collection).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deploy enhancements to HSBC's electronic trading platform
• Support and optimize what you and your colleagues have built
• Collaborate with software engineers in other time zones
• Reduce toil and repetitive tasks by automation

Skills

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Java

Linux CLI

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Aeron

Podman

Job description

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as Full Stack Engineer.

In this role you will:

• Design, implement and deploy enhancements to HSBC's electronic trading platform
• Support and optimize what you and your colleagues have built
• Collaborate with software engineers in other time zones
• Reduce toil and repetitive tasks by automation

To be successful you will need:

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering of low-latency or real-time systems
• Excellent Java proficiency required, including concurrency, tuning, and memory management
• Good command of Linux/UNIX command line interface
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Using agentic AI for software maintenance
• Experience with container runtimes (Podman, Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with message passing systems such as Kafka and Aeron
• Practicing data-driven optimizations (profiling, metrics collection)