Senior Software Engineer (Java) (Investment Banking Tech)

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Your career opportunity

Global Debt Markets (GDM) IT supports the Global Debt Markets Business within HSBC’s Markets and Securities Services organisation. The GDM Business are the principal market makers for Credit and Rates products within the HSBC Markets business.   

The Falcon UI is a core piece of the Global Debt Markets (GDM) technology estate and the foundation upon which the GDM Trader Desktop is built. Falcon teams work on nearly every part of the front office application estate from Risk and Trading Booking to Electronic Trading and Market Making.  

The Falcon framework is a state-of-the-art trading and risk application platform utilized across various businesses at HSBC built on HTML5 and React. The framework is designed for scalability, high throughput, responsiveness and availability to meet high standards of the trading desks. Using the latest technologies, applications based on Falcon compete with industry leading solutions in robustness, scalability as well as aesthetics. Falcon applications are quickly evolving at a high release cadence contributed by a large team of developers from across IT.

Who we are:

This role is working within the Market Securities & Services (MSS) division, specifically within FICC risk for Global Live Risk Desk where technology is central to all aspects of our business.

What you’ll do

You and your teammates are responsible for all aspects of delivering software to users:

• Senior developer role and accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the project.
• Implementation (Coding) of assigned modules/tasks and providing technical solutions/designs to the team.
• Liaise with product owners and SMEs for clarity on stories, acceptance criteria and testing scope. 
• Work closely with architecture team to deliver solutions that appropriately address business needs and timelines having futuristic thought process and embedded design thinking. 
• Work with different stakeholders from different locations ensuring delivery is at focus.
• Provide guidance to the DevOps engineers on the engineering approaches to implement solution.
• Provide support during US hours.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in relevant stream.
• A strong track record of building UI’s as part of multi-tier applications.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence and other Atlassian products.
• Experienced with Javascript/React.js.
• Ideally experienced with Java or Scala as well.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to take on some BA work when required.
• Keen sense of ownership, carried through the full SDLC from specification to production support.
• Team player, with a proven awareness of the importance of team working in a fast paced highly technical environment.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• Flexible working hours 
• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test 
• Telephone screen 
• Job interview with the hiring manager