GSC: Tech Lead (LP)

HSBC; Poland; On-site; PLN 312,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Multisport card

Private medical care

Life insurance

Home office setup reimbursement (up to

800 PLN

Job summary

HSBC Krakow is seeking an experienced Tech Lead to join our delivery team, focusing on the development and maintenance of FICC Pricing Applications. You will own back-end Java development and CI/CD tooling, partnering with stakeholders to deliver on time.

The role requires strong Java expertise (7+ years), leadership capabilities and hands-on experience with microservices, monitoring, and DevOps practices in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Zakres and benefits are described in the offer.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Java engineering experience as an individual contributor with mentoring ability.
• Proven track record of platform improvements, performance optimisation and production stability.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, collaborative environments with Agile approach.
• Experience with Vertex, Spring Boot and microservices architecture, Elasticsearch/ELK.
• Familiarity with monitoring and CI/CD/DevOps tooling and related security practices.
• Exposure to JMS/IBM MQ/Artemis/Solace and RDBMS/NOSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop code for new requirements and fix defects according to standards.
• Contribute to requirements gathering and delivery planning with stakeholders.
• Translate objectives into user stories with product owners and analysts.
• Identify transformation opportunities and drive automation.
• Coordinate delivery schedules with development and testing teams.
• Review solutions and advise on risk and strategy.
• Provide support to the technical lead and conduct research on best practices.

Skills

Java engineering

Mentoring

Performance optimization

Agile

Spring Boot

Microservices

Elasticsearch/ELK

Monitoring tools

JMS/IBM MQ

DevOps/CI-CD

Cybersecurity tools

RDBMS

NoSQL

Unit/End-to-end testing

Git/Subversion

Trade Life Cycle/STP

Tools

Grafana

Kibana

Prometheus

TeamCity

Jenkins

JIRA

Confluence

NexusIQ

Checkmarx

Git

Oracle

MongoDB

Job description

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.

Your career opportunity

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.

On every application that you work on, you understand the architecture in and out, plus you always strive to improve it. You know how to get clarity on the requirement, communicate with stakeholders, break the tasks, estimate and set out a delivery schedule and most importantly deliver on time.

We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead, who will join our delivery team supporting development and maintenance of FICC Pricing Applications. A successful candidate must have strong knowledge and skills in back-end coding and tooling area to support various requirements coming from our business partners. We expect this person will play one of the key roles in the delivery team - not only when it comes to Java development but also in owning CI/CD + DevOps Tools.

What you’ll do

• Work on code development for new requirements and on fixing existing bugs/defects according to agreed standards and best practices.
• Contribute to requirements gathering and delivery planning to meet our business partners’ needs in both quality and on-time delivery aspect.
• Consult closely with business stakeholders to understand their objectives and requirements, developing user stories in association with product owners, Business Analysts and lead technical solutions.
• Identify transformation opportunities and automate.
• Work with development team to map requirements to delivery schedules and pipelines, working with testing team to ensure appropriate test cases are executed against requirements.
• Identify potential issues, reviewing solutions and recommending strategies for solving problems.
• Provide support to technical lead responsible for the project delivery.
• Conduct research - both in technology but also business process and strategy - to ensure knowledge of best practice needed to support delivery for business stakeholders.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Strong Java engineering experience (7+ years) as an individual contributor with the ability to mentor others.
• A track record of driving platform improvements, including performance optimisation and production stability.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills. Hands-on experience in Agile projects.
• Proven experience in Vertex, Spring Boot and microservices architecture, Elasticsearch and ELK.
• Experience using monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus.
• Exposure to message-driven architectures, working on JMS, IBM MQ / Artemis / Solace etc.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD and cybersecurity tools ex. Teamcity /Jenkins / JIRA/ Confluence / NexusIQ / CheckMarx and hands-on experience with RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or NOSQL DBs (e.g. MongoDB).
• Familiarity with Unit Test / Regression Test / e2e Test and Sophisticated with Subversion tools ex. Git.
• In-depth knowledge of Trade Life cycle & Straight Through Processing (STP).

Nice to have

• Exposure to Fixed Income Cash and Derivative products.
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting guidelines by various regulatory authorities.
• Understanding of third‑party tools like ION for pricing and market data.
• High Frequency and Low latency coding.
• Rust, Go, Python.

What we offer

The pay range for this role is 28 000 PLN - 32 000 PLN (monthly, gross).

Additional car allowance in the amount of 4,786 PLN (monthly, gross).

Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN)
• Employee assistance program
• Additional contributions to PPK scheme
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery and kindergarten discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• 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)
• Job interview with the hiring manager

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.

In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: [e-mail]