Tech Lead (LP)

HSBC

Kraków

On-site

PLN 312,000 - 357,000

Full time

29 hours ago

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Car allowance

Private medical care

Multisport card

Life insurance

Home office setup reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Job summary

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. in Kraków is seeking an experienced Tech Lead to join the delivery team responsible for FICC Pricing Applications.

You will lead back-end Java development, own CI/CD and DevOps tooling, and work with stakeholders to map requirements to timely deliverables. The role requires deep Java experience, microservices, and familiarity with monitoring, messaging, and database technologies.

Qualifications

Strong Java engineering experience (7+ years) with mentoring ability.
Track record of driving platform improvements, production stability.
Excellent problem-solving and collaboration in Agile environments.
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 (JMS, IBM MQ / Artemis / Solace).
Hands-on DevOps, CI/CD and cybersecurity tools (Teamcity/Jenkins/JIRA/Confluence/NexusIQ/CheckMarx) and databases (Oracle/MongoDB).
Familiarity with unit, regression, and end-to-end testing; Git and Subversion familiarity.
Understanding of Trade Life cycle and Straight Through Processing (STP).

Responsibilities

Develop code for new requirements and fix defects per standards.
Participate in requirements gathering and delivery planning.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into user stories.
Identify transformation opportunities and automation.
Coordinate with development and testing teams to validate requirements.
Support the technical lead in project delivery.

Skills

Java engineering

Mentoring

Performance optimisation

Agile

Spring Boot

Microservices

Elasticsearch/ELK

Monitoring tools

JMS/MQ

CI/CD

DevOps

JIRA/Confluence

SQL/NoSQL

Unit/Regression/e2e tests

STP/Trade Life cycle

Tools

Vertex

Spring Boot

Jenkins

TeamCity

NexusIQ

CheckMarx

Git

Subversion

Oracle

MongoDB

Job description

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. is HSBC's global finance, operations, risk and technology centre. We use our unique expertise and capabilities to provide specialised services - our people range from technologists transforming the banking experience to operations professionals managing 1.7 trillion payments a year.

Our Purpose - Opening up a world of opportunity - explains why we exist. We are bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world - for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

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 be doing:

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

You’re a great candidate if you have these:

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 you’ll get with us:

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

Additional car allowance in the amount of 4786 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.