Job Description

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant and performant backend system
• Design and evolve microservice, event driven architecture
• Partner with Solution Architects, Product manager, other tech leads to translate business requirement into highly scalable systems
• Contribute to system and API Design, ensuring modularity, performance, maintainability
• Ensuring Coding Standards and drive best practices in coding, testing and documentation
• Mentor Junior engineer, conduct code review & provide technical leadership
• Practical experience consuming and integrating LLM frameworks/APIs (LangChain, Spring AI, or equivalent) to build AI and agentic features, with Java or Python as the primary language
• Proven experience helping build a product from a new product vision — turning early concepts into a scalable platform through sound architecture and strong engineering foundations

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements

• Should have 12 to 15 years of experience
• Extensive knowledge of Java 8+ / Python frame work, Spring / PythonFramework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
• Should have deep knowledge of Micro-Service Architecture, Principle & Patterns
• Should demonstrate in depth knowledge of Design Patterns and Principle to encourage reusability, maintainability
• Should have expert knowledge of Design and Development of APIs ( REST APIs , GraphQL APIs )
• Experience of both SQL & NoSQL Databases like Oracle, Postgress, MySQL, MonogDB, Casandara
• Experience of at least one of the middleware technologies like Kafka, IBM QUE or RabbitMQ and Exposure of APM Tools like AppDynamics, NewRelic & understand and drive Observability
• Should have exposure of implementing Security measures, Authentication and authorization using JWT, oAUTH, TLS and Should have exposure to DevOps tooling & implementing CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India