Senior Software Engineer

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.

• 10+ years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions using Java, Microservices, API and 3rd party product integrations.
• Hands-on experience in translating user requirements into functional code, managing the full development life cycle (SDLC) from design to production.
• Strong knowledge and experience in back-end technologies: Microservice architecture, Java 17/21/25, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Integration and Rest APIs.
• Experience in working in an Agile, DevSecOps environment.
• Proven ability to improve developer productivity – through automation, reusability and advanced technical skills. The ability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization.
• Hands-on experience with usage of AI coding assistants.
• Experience of designing applications, alongside architects and platform stakeholders.
• Excellent command of IT risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, credentials management, and related controls. A deep understanding of design patterns and principles, as well as a comprehensive expertise in microservice design principles and patterns.

Nice to have:

• Experience in cloud native software development; with the database technologies such Oracle, PostgreSQL or HBase; with Test driven development methodologies such as Junit & BDD using Selenium and Robot framework.
• Strong with development engineering concepts including infrastructure, networking, database management systems, caching, monitoring, observability, Load balancer, site reliability engineering, etc.
• Expertise in any monitoring and observability technologies like Prometheus, Influx DB, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Experience in MQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark and Object Store.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm Chart, GCP services like cloud storage, cloud buckets.

• Work 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.