Backend Engineering lead/Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
Pune · Executive
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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 Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
In this role, you will:
- Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, covering non-functional requirements (resilience, scalability, latency, observability, security).
- Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform, refactor, microservices decomposition), ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
- Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modelling, testing strategy, CI/CD and operational readiness.Manage technical debt with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.
- Architect, Design and build core services using Java (8+), Spring Boot 3, JPA, PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ), and event streaming patterns.Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
- Partners with engineers in code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
- Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting, tooling, testing), leveraging Python where needed.
- Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse), and GKE.
- Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements and cost optimization.
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- 15+ years in software engineering, including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
- Strong hands-on Java experience (recent and demonstrable) with Spring Boot, REST/event-driven services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), and SQL performance tuning.
- Proven system design skills: microservices patterns, async messaging, idempotency, consistency models, caching, rate limiting, and failure handling.
- Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably GCP (or equivalent cloud with ability to translate).
- Clear communicator; able to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.
- Kubernetes and deployment tooling: GKE, Helm, CI/CD pipelines.Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver/Cloud Monitoring, distributed tracing.
- Security practices in cloud/Kubernetes: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, secure SDLC.
- Front-end exposure (helpful, not essential): React, TypeScript.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
HSBC is an equal opportunity employer 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 applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”
Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.
Issued by – HSBC Software Development India
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