Tech Lead (Java)

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.

• Experience of leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean environment.
• 7+ years of experience in designing, developing and operating distributed systems written in Java.
• Designing and developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Core Java and Spring (Hystrix, Eureka, Zuul, Sleuth, Feign, Ribbon).
• Experience using microservices (REST APIs).
• Experience using Apache Beam and Apache Flink.
• Cloud knowledge (preferred GCP).
• Experience with test driven development.
• Solid knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions and ability to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems.

Nice to have:

• Experience of distributed applications using in-memory stores, e.g. Redis.
• Familiar with automation tools like Jenkins, Ansible.
• Knowledge of Relational Databases (Oracle, PgSQL).

• As a Tech Lead you will be responsible for the technical leadership of the team: this means designing the service as well as setting the technical direction for the service.
• Be responsible for both the development and maintenance of the microservices in Counterparty Credit Risk.
• Be expected to cut code as well as be the technical lead.
• Work with overall delivery manager and other technical leads to evolve the architecture of the new system.
• Lead and mentor the team that will be covering all aspects of delivering software to your users: development, automating testing and deployment of small and frequent releases.
• Ensure production availability of your service – if you build a service, you own the service.
• Ensure software is developed up to highest standards matching modern software development principles: SOLID, KISS, DRY, YAGNI.