Role Overview
Join our Foreign Exchange (FX) Options technology team to deliver enhancements and fixes for the FX Option Risk Monitoring System during North America business hours, and over time contribute across the broader FX Options Primary Trading stack, including the Trade Life Cycle platform. You’ll take senior technical ownership, drive design decisions, and strengthen local support capability through mentoring and engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of enhancements and defect fixes for the FX Option Risk Monitoring System during North America business hours
- Take end-to-end technical ownership: analysis, design, build, testing, release readiness, and post-release validation
- Translate business needs into pragmatic solutions, making clear trade-offs across speed, risk, non‑financial reporting, tech debt, and cost
- Partner with Product Owner, Front Office traders, and quant teams to clarify requirements and manage ambiguity
- Ensure production outcomes: resilience, performance, security, and observability (logging/metrics/alerting)
- Reduce incidents through effective triage, root‑cause analysis, and permanent fixes
- Manage cross‑system impacts across integrated services and shared data flows as scope expands into Trade Life Cycle
- Collaborate closely with the China‑based technical lead and engineering team, with clear handovers across time zones
- Lead engineering excellence in code quality, automated testing, CI/CD hygiene, documentation, and maintainable design
Qualifications
- Senior, hands‑on experience building and supporting Java backend systems in production with clear technical ownership
- Strong experience with modern Java services (commonly Spring / SpringBoot, REST APIs, microservices patterns)
- Solid engineering fundamentals: OO design, concurrency, performance tuning, and clean code practices
- Strong production mindset: operability‑by‑design, monitoring/alerting/logging, and incident management
- Proven ability to drive technical decisions and deliver with distributed teams across time zones
- Clear communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including Front Office/quant partners
- Strong testing discipline (unit/integration) and experience working with CI/CD pipelines
- Nice to have: FX Options / risk monitoring / trading systems experience; Kafka/event‑driven patterns; Ignite/in‑memory data; Prometheus/Grafana; regulated environments with strong controls/audit expectations
Working Model
Toronto‑based delivery manager; close partnership with a China‑based development team and technical lead; primary coverage during North America hours.
Legal and EEO Statement
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.
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.
Compensation and Benefits
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.
HSBC offers a competitive Total Reward Package with a mix of fixed pay and variable pay, including discretionary annual awards. Benefits encompass health, well‑being, finances, and lifestyle support.
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