Software Engineering
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Summary
Software engineer on HSBC's Hong Kong Structured Products Technology team building equity derivatives trading infrastructure — analyzing and re-writing Excel/VBA tools into Java/Kotlin services and owning full project lifecycles from requirements to deployment. Core stack: Java, Kotlin, C#, Kubernetes, MongoDB, with strong emphasis on AI-enabled development.
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Software Engineer.
In this role you will:
- Working in a team of 8 developers within the Hong Kong Structured Products Technology Team to help build strategic Equity Derivatives trading infrastructure
- The candidate is expected to excel in AI-enabled development and have a proven track record of writing high-quality code, following modern best practices, and proposing solutions to a technical and business audience.
- They will additionally work at improving controls over the Equity Derivatives trading and/or operations tools, which will involve analyzing, understanding existing tools (Excel/VBA) and either re-design/re-write them in a target framework in Java/Kotlin or partially re-design them to start the path towards demise
- They will manage end to end projects, such as requirement gathering, development, UAT, deployment and supporting users post deployment
- Regular interaction with the Structuring and Sales desks and will work on local and global tactical and semi strategic platforms.
To be successful you will need:
- Excellent AI-enabled development experience with OO or functional programming styles in Java, Kotlin and C#
- A passion to drive the adoption of modern bast practices including test driven development, devops, agile methodologies
- Working in a team of developers in a complex global environment
- Ability to own the entire project cycle and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
- Motivation towards understanding further the Equity Derivatives business
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
- Experience of equity derivatives products either Derivative Pricing or Risk Management
- Knowledge of containerisation / orchestratration platforms such as Kubernetes would be advantageous
- Experience of using noSql databases such as MongoDB
- Up to date strategic skills in event-driven architecture and web services