Senior Software Engineer

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations 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 realize their ambitions. Within HSBC’s Corporate and Institutional banking department, Collateral Technology provide the technology to enable margining function across thousands of HSBC clients globally every day. We handle several business problems/challenges & Regulatory requirements around the use & management of collateral from Front to Back Office by the Asset Classes, Traded Risk, Credit Risk, Finance & Operations (Collateral Ops & Settlement). We are part way through a multi-year plan to build a brand-new Collateral platform which will eventually replace the existing one. The new collateral platform comprises micro services leveraging the latest open-source infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team and make key contributions in the migration journey. We are embarking into the journey of Architecture transformation and Automation with strong focus on Innovation and building new capabilities and solutions with internal cloud infrastructure. We encourage our people to dive in, roll up their sleeves and take on the many opportunities bound to come their way. We provide freedom to innovate, code and develop innovative product and solutions. We offer ample opportunities as well as training and development programs that empower you to expand your skills and abilities. We are investing heavily across our technology and engineering domains and to accelerate achieving our vision we are seeking an experienced full stack Senior Engineer to join the Collateral Technology team within CIB. This is a global role based in Krakow, Poland. Senior Engineer should be providing design guidance, technology recommendations, and best practices, along with being fully hands-on in this role with development and delivery of new features and engineering practices. The role will require to have close collaboration with technical architects and team leads in both Poland and India, to ensure robust technical leadership and seamless end-to-end project execution. The Senior Engineer in Krakow will be: Hands-on engineer, working in the capacity of an Individual contributor by coding and testing new features, enhancements and fixes to existing application Provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of engineers in delivering application design, build and upgrades to Collateral Technology architecture Design scalable, resilient, maintainable systems (microservices, event-driven, monolith-to-microservice migrations) Ship high‑quality code: set coding standards, lead code reviews, and champion testing and CI/CD. Establish a technology environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data. Take accountability and ownership of design and solutions Promote and ensure engineering best practices and standards are met in building simpler, faster, and secure components Drive automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevSecOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement and adopting upcoming IT controls Identify risks and opportunities, both for IT and business to drive availability, performance, and resiliency of services Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, framework and technologies in areas like cyber security, AI / ML and Data engineering Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge technologies and practices