Equity Securities Finance Full Stack Engineer

Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC, we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas, and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities, and the planet we all share.  

In Canada, HSBC Global Services (Canada) Limited (HGCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited. Operating in Toronto and Vancouver, HGCA is part of a global service company, delivering services to support the operating entities of HSBC Group. We have different capabilities that provide tools and processes to facilitate the functions, business, and entities with their service management responsibilities. 

Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

Within HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Prime Finance Technology is a global team that works together to build innovative sales and trading systems for the Prime Brokerage and Equity Finance business clients. We strive to engineer performant, scalable and reliable systems that enable our business to grow clients and revenue. We care about working hand-in-hand with our business partners towards realizing architectural principles of simplicity, efficiency and transparency.

Prime Finance employs a varied technology stack in order to deliver value to the business. We aggressively pursue increased release cadence through the adoption of enhanced tooling and DevOps/Agile methodology. Our team values engineers with a growth mindset who love to learn new things, who are curious - whether that be learning about what our traders are doing or how to change our systems to be better. We are hungry for diverse ideas and encourage our engineers to challenge the status quo and guide us, both in terms of technological choices and overall design of the business solution.

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be working across the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, covering the inception, development, testing, release and ongoing maintenance of a product or service. You would be working with the business stakeholders, architects and other engineers in a culture of collaboration.

This position will work as a member of a highly skilled, agile development team. We are building systems for Synthetic business, used by Front Office/Middle Office and Back Office across the globe and we are seeking a dedicated professional who is a team player, self-motivated, and who achieves technological excellence in short timescales. 

This is an extremely hands-on, delivery-focused, technical position involving a lot of analysis, coding, testing and interfacing with business users. A good knowledge of Equities Financing and especially at the synthetics business is highly desirable but a thirst for knowledge and the knack to apply that knowledge is just as good to us. There will be a high degree of teamwork and technical peer interaction involved.

As our Equity Securities Finance Full Stack Engineer, you will: 

• Join an Agile pod that builds, maintains, and supports software for the Securities financing business line
• Be responsible for analysis, design, and development of highly available, scalable software components along with functional and development team 
• Maintain and enhance existing applications by implementing planned engineering changes as part of agile feature team
• Recommend development best practices for application improvement and development
• Code review based on four eye policy
• Support the infrastructure and the application you worked on. It includes production support responsibilities too
• Be responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery
• Be a team player, willing to share and respecting team values

You will likely be successful in the role if you have:

• Proven strong hands-on software development experience predominantly on Java Platform
• Experience in full stack development of Microservices/Application, Cloud from scratch including good exposure to database
• Expert in Java 8 and higher
• Strong Hands-on experience on Spring Framework
• Hands on experience in TDD/BDD based testing approach
• Good understanding of Microservices Architecture
• Excellent exposure to the Google Cloud Platform and DevOps CI/CD tools
• Good Experience on MS-SQL/Oracle DB, Cloud-SQL, BigQuery and good understanding of PL-SQL
• Knowledge of REACT and scalar programming
• Source Code control systems specially GITHUB
• Should be self-learner with the ability to design and develop end to end solution
• A strong and consistent focus on automation of the development and delivery pipeline
• Agile mindset and action oriented
• Strong communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Would be good if the candidate worked with Investment Banking/Security Financing domain

In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in Canada. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position. 

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee’s overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a “bonus”). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.  

The final fixed pay offer will depend on the candidate and a number of variables, including but not limited to, role responsibilities, skill set, depth of experience and education, licensing/certification requirements, internal relativity, and specific work location. 

At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee’s overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a “bonus”). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle.