Java Full Stack Engineer - Credit & Rates London, England
Job description
Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.
Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank. Our multi-disciplined teams include DevOps Engineers, IT Architects, Front and Back-End Developers, Infrastructure specialists, Cyber experts, as well as Project and Programme Managers.
Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains and with plans for continued expansion throughout 2023 and beyond, we are currently seeking experienced individuals to join HSBC Technology.
Global Debt Markets (GDM) IT supports the Global Debt Markets Business within HSBC’s Markets and Securities Services organisation. The GDM Business are the principle market makers for Credit and Rates products within the HSBC Markets business.
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.
Responsibilities
- Working with the Business, IT development and support teams to ensure successful implementation of business and technical requirements
- Ensuring consistent processes across the development lifecycle and working closely with other Falcon and Front to back teams to continually improve the DevOps pipeline.
- Identifying and collaborating on re-use opportunities within the broader Falcon community, both as a consumer and producer of components.
- Contributing to and collaborating to improve the overall Falcon application beyond their specific projects.
- Building UIs as part of multi-tier applications.
- Experience with JavaScript / React.js or similar
- Experience with Java
- Experience supporting a global business and collaborating with multiple teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has an analytical approach to problem solving
- 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
- Interested in learning new skills and flexibility to work on anything that we have – some of our stuff is Java, React.js, Scala, Mongo, etc… You may not be an expert, but we still expect you to try and learn to get the job done.
- Experience working in Fixed Income, working knowledge of Rates & Credit products including Bonds, IRS and CDS.
- Experience with pricing and /or risk management of Fixed Income products in a Front Office environment
- Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and other Atlassian products
- Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Teamcity
- Experience with JavaScript – TypeScript - React.JS
- Experience with Electron or OpenFin
- Experience with Canvas and Workers
- Experience with Java and Scala
- Experience with AgGrid
- Experience with Unit test using Jest or Mocha / Chai / Enzyme
- Experience with E2E test using Cypress / WebdriveIO
The role will be based in London, but some travel may be required. This role supports Hybrid working
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Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.”
We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
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