Senior Java Developer – Capital Markets

Opening up a world of opportunity.
We're a financial services organization serving more than 39 million customers across the globe through our Wealth & Personal Banking, Commercial Banking and Global Banking & Markets businesses.
We’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up a world of new opportunities for our customers, our people and our communities.
HSBC Global Services Canada Limited (HGCA), is a subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited, owned by HSBC Holdings plc. HGCA provides operational services to countries across the HSBC Group which is the largest and leading international bank in the Canada.
We help companies and individuals across Canada to manage their finances through three global business lines: Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Wealth and Personal Banking.
It’s this global connectivity that you will find yourself inspired and collaborating with colleagues not just locally but also across continents and cultures.
About Global Banking & Markets, IT
Global Banking and Markets (GBM) provides financial services and products to corporates, governments and institutions worldwide, building partnerships with them to help them achieve consistent, long-term performance. We use the strength of HSBC’s international network to connect emerging and mature markets, covering key growth areas. Our products and services include advisory, financing, prime services, research and analysis, securities services, trading and sales, and transaction banking.
The Global Banking and Markets Technology team is dedicated to supporting Global Banking and Markets by working in partnership with business leaders who rely on us for delivering innovative, robust, stable platforms to enable their investment and financial solutions for clients. Join Global Banking and Markets Technology and be part of the global connectivity, collaboration and team that spans across 20 countries. The total number of successful production releases surpass some of the biggest blue chip tech companies. Canada is a key location in Global Banking and Markets Technology’s global growth strategy and is receiving global attention for its deliveries.
About the role:
This role is working within the Market Securities & Services (MSS) division, where technology is central to all aspects of our business – for example electronic trading in the financial markets.
River is the first ever HSBC-built Cash FX primary trading system
(PTS). We are a 170 strong global team located across New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, London and Krakow. The team covers a wide area of functions including:

• Trade Workflow is responsible for trade booking and lifecycle
• RODS manages trade storage
• Risk delivers client facing applications including risk managment
• Compute focuses on valuations

What we do:
We are building an in-house platform to support all primary functions for FX Trading (pricing, booking, routing, risk management and valuations) which is replacing a vendor platform. Our pods adhere to the DevOps ethos and work closely with the FX traders. Everyone in the team develops and releases components of the system into production. So far, we have performed 15,000 releases to build out our PTS and have demised the vendor platform in all trading sites.
The way we work

• All our teams strive to do continuous delivery – we do small, incremental releases and follow agile practices
• For us that means:
• We are empowered to use technology and tools to automate as much as possible
• All our teams work in pods of 4-8 developers and work closely with the business
• We build small services and strive to break up monolithic systems where we have them
• Each small team is responsible for everything from the requirements to the development to running it in Production. If we build it we own it
• We are not ‘order takers’ but responsible for the service we are developing

Responsibilities:

• Joining us, you will work on:
• Creating usable, efficient and elegant Java code
• Building a micro-service based architecture
• Foreign Exchange business requirements
• Monitoring production and keeping it stable

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

• Automating testing and deployment of small and frequent releases
• Production availability of your service – if you build a service you own the service
• Speaking to the product owner and business on features and requirements
• Development

Requirements

• Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so
• English at least B2 level
• Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Experience with REST and messaging technologies
• Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology
• Demonstrates a passion for software development outside of work through involvement in open source, working groups etc.
• Experience with Java 8+ (Concurrency, data structures, lock-free, wait free code, low latency, lambdas)
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Familiar with TDD, continuous integration, jUnit, continuous deployment and testing
• FX business knowledge an advantage, but focus is on technical skills
• Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator
• Experience of working in an agile team

HSBC Proud
HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.
We encourage all Black people, Indigenous People of Canada and people with disabilities to self-identify in their applications. Please contact our Canada Careers mailbox ([email protected]) with any additional inquiries or for support and reasonable accommodations during the selection process.
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