About this role
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as Electronic Trading Architect
In this role you will:
- Design, implement and deploy enhancements to HSBC’s electronic trading platform
- Support and optimize what you and your colleagues have built
- Collaborate with software engineers in other time zones
- Reduce toil and repetitive tasks by automation
To be successful you will need:
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering of low-latency or real-time systems
- Excellent Java proficiency required, including concurrency, tuning, and memory management
- Good command of Linux/UNIX command line interface
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Using agentic AI for software maintenance
- Experience with container runtimes (Podman, Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with message passing systems such as Kafka and Aeron
- Practicing data-driven optimizations (profiling, metrics collection)
- Working-knowledge of CI/CD techniques