Backend Engineering lead/Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

HSBC; Pune District; Vor Ort; INR 3.500.000 - 6.000.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

HSBC is seeking an experienced Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist to join our India team.

You will own architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, drive modernization efforts, and establish engineering standards across API design, event-driven integration, and testing. You will lead core services with Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, and PostgreSQL, and steer real-time processing using Flink/Beam, while collaborating across teams to ensure reliability

Qualifikationen

• 15+ years in software engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on Java experience with Spring Boot, REST/event-driven services, and ORM.
• Proven system design skills: microservices, async messaging, caching, and fault handling.
• Cloud-native experience, preferably GCP, with ability to translate to other clouds.
• Clear communicator and ability to align architecture with business needs.
• Kubernetes deployment tooling: GKE, Helm, CI/CD pipelines; Observability focus.

Aufgaben

• Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, covering resiliency, scalability, latency, observability, and security.
• Define modernization roadmaps: re-platform, refactor, and microservices decomposition with minimal live disruption.
• Set engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing, CI/CD and operational readiness; manage tech debt.
• Architect and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, PostgreSQL; lead real-time processing with Flink/Beam.
• Collaborate on code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency with scripting, tooling, and testing; Python where needed.
• Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery/ClickHouse, and GKE.
• Own production reliability: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.

Kenntnisse

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Tools

GCP

GKE

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

Some careers shine brighter than others. If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

In This Role, You Will

• Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, covering non-functional requirements (resilience, scalability, latency, observability, security).
• Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform, refactor, microservices decomposition), ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
• Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing strategy, CI/CD and operational readiness.Manage technical debt with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.
• Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ), and event streaming patterns.Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
• Partners with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), leveraging Python where needed.
• Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse), and GKE.
• Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 15+ years in software engineering, including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Strong hands‑on Java experience (recent and demonstrable) with Spring Boot, REST/event-driven services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), and SQL performance tuning.
• Proven system design skills: microservices patterns, async messaging, idempotency, consistency models, caching, rate limiting, and failure handling.
• Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably GCP (or equivalent cloud with ability to translate).
• Clear communicator; able to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.
• Kubernetes and deployment tooling: GKE, Helm, CI/CD pipelines.Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver/Cloud Monitoring, distributed tracing.
• Security practices in cloud/Kubernetes: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, secure SDLC.
• Front‑end exposure (helpful, not essential): React, TypeScript.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India