Senior Software Engineer (ePricing)

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Our global businesses serve more than 40 million customers worldwide through a network that covers 63 countries and territories.

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.

• Expert Java server-side engineering experience (essential), including deep knowledge of concurrency/multi-threading, memory/GC behaviour, and performance tuning.
• Proven track record delivering and operating global distributed systems in a 24x5.5 trading (or similarly mission-critical) environment (essential).
• Strong low-latency engineering mindset: profiling, optimisation, efficient data structures, and pragmatic trade-offs under real-time constraints.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical outcomes: design ownership, mentoring, code review leadership, and driving engineering standards across a team.
• Strong SDLC discipline: automated unit/integration testing, CI pipelines, release management, and “production-first” operational readiness.
• Solid FX domain understanding, including spot and forward conventions and how pricing is consumed in high-volume eTrading flows.
• Experience building FX/eRates pricing for eCommerce (advantageous); KDB+/q and/or Python also advantageous.
• Self-motivated, delivery-focused, and calm under pressure—able to simplify complex problems and get the right things done quickly and safely.

• Build and enhance FX forward pricing services, producing forward prices from rates, futures, and FX broker data for distribution to eCommerce and trading channels.
• Partner directly with eRisk Quant Traders and Cash FX Forward/NDF traders to clarify requirements and translate them into deliverable technical outcomes.
• Deliver pricing control features with traders/quants (e.g., price tiering, derived crossing, manual curve adjustments, spreading, interpolation).
• Evolve the forward pricing infrastructure to support on-demand quoting and curve crossing from eCommerce systems.
• Integrate new pricing models and onboard new market data feeds, ensuring correctness, performance, and operational readiness.
• Produce detailed technical designs, aligning with agreed architecture and engineering standards across the GFX programme.
• Implement solutions using modern SDLC practices (CI/CD, automated unit/integration testing), and complete thorough testing ahead of UAT.
• Support releases and production stability, including participation in intra-day/overnight support rotas when required, driving root-cause fixes and service improvements.