Java Developer / Sr. Associate Director

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.

Role: Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will:

- Design and implement business-critical workflow orchestration using Flowable BPMN/DMN engine — including Java delegates, task
listeners, and decision tables

- Build and maintain RESTful microservices in a hexagonal (ports & adapters) architecture with CQRS read/write service separation

- Implement complex multi-step approval workflows (1LoD/2LoD review chains, auto-approval logic, scope manager integration)

- Work with PostgreSQL databases across multiple schemas, JPA/Hibernate entity mappings, and Spring Data repositories
Integrate with GCP Pub/Sub for audit event publishing and asynchronous communication

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

- 8+ years Java (Java 21, records, pattern matching, sealed classes)

- 5+ years Spring Boot (3.x/4.x, auto-configuration, profiles, actuator, security)
Spring Cloud — Feign clients, service discovery patterns, distributed configuration

- Flowable or Activiti — BPMN process design, DMN decision tables,

- JavaDelegate/TaskListener implementation, process variable
management, history service queries

- JPA/Hibernate — entity relationships, derived queries, custom JPQL, schema migration strategies
PostgreSQL — query optimization, indexing, understanding of N+1 query patterns
RESTful API design — pagination, filtering, CQRS patterns, DTO mapping
Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito, integration testing with embedded databases,

- REST Assured
Git — branching strategies, code review, merge conflict resolution

Preferred Skills

- GCP — Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, GKE deployment, Cloud SQL
- Hexagonal architecture — ports & adapters, domain-driven design
- Helm/Kubernetes — chart authoring, Skaffold, container lifecycle
- CI/CD pipelines — Cloud Build, automated testing, environment promotion
- Performance optimization — identifying N+1 Feign/query problems, batch endpoint design, caching strategies
- Lombok, MapStruct — code generation, DTO mapping
- OpenAPI/Swagger — API documentation, contract-first design

What We Value

- Engineers who read existing code before writing new code
- Clean, minimal changes — no speculative abstractions or premature generalization

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India