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. 

About Us

MSS Tech is a c.7,000-strong diverse, talented, and resilient engineering group that partners with our business and wider-bank colleagues to deliver industry-leading technology services. Our clients feel safe in the knowledge that, for us, production always comes first, anything less is failure. We constantly challenge boundaries, whilst engineering with safety and security. Continually building on our strongest assets - our people, maximizing our potential, continuously stretching what it means to be a high performing organization.

Who We Are

This role is working within the Market Securities Services (MSS) division, where technology is central to all aspects of our business – for example electronic trading in the financial markets.

River is the first ever HSBC-built Cash FX primary trading system (PTS). We are a 170 strong global team located across New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, London and Krakow. The team covers a wide area of functions including:

Risk delivers client facing applications including risk managementTrade Workflow is responsible for trade booking and lifecycle Compute focuses on valuations RODS manages trade storage

What We Do

We are building an in-house platform to support all primary functions for FX Trading (pricing, booking, routing, risk management and valuations) which is replacing a vendor platform. Our pods adhere to the DevOps ethos and work closely with the FX traders. Everyone in the team develops and releases components of the system into production.

The Way We Work

All our teams work in pods of 4-8 developers and work closely with the businessWe are not ‘order takers’ but responsible for the service we are developingFor us that means:All our teams strive to do continuous delivery – we do small, incremental releases and follow agile practicesWe are empowered to use technology and tools to automate as much as possibleWe build small services and strive to break up monolithic systems where we have themEach small team is responsible for everything from the requirements to the development to running it in Production. If we build it, we own it.

As our Java Engineer, you will: 

Creating usable, efficient and elegant Java codeBuilding a micro-service-based architecture Monitoring production and keeping it stableForeign Exchange business requirements

What Your Day will Look Like

You and your teammates are responsible for all aspects of delivering software to users:

DevelopmentAutomating testing and deployment of small and frequent releasesSpeaking to the product owner and business on features and requirementsProduction availability of your service – if you build a service, you own the service

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. 

About Us

MSS Tech is a c.7,000-strong diverse, talented, and resilient engineering group that partners with our business and wider-bank colleagues to deliver industry-leading technology services. Our clients feel safe in the knowledge that, for us, production always comes first, anything less is failure. We constantly challenge boundaries, whilst engineering with safety and security. Continually building on our strongest assets - our people, maximizing our potential, continuously stretching what it means to be a high performing organization.

Who We Are

This role is working within the Market Securities Services (MSS) division, where technology is central to all aspects of our business – for example electronic trading in the financial markets.

River is the first ever HSBC-built Cash FX primary trading system (PTS). We are a 170 strong global team located across New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, London and Krakow. The team covers a wide area of functions including:

Risk delivers client facing applications including risk managementTrade Workflow is responsible for trade booking and lifecycle Compute focuses on valuations RODS manages trade storage

What We Do

We are building an in-house platform to support all primary functions for FX Trading (pricing, booking, routing, risk management and valuations) which is replacing a vendor platform. Our pods adhere to the DevOps ethos and work closely with the FX traders. Everyone in the team develops and releases components of the system into production.

The Way We Work

All our teams work in pods of 4-8 developers and work closely with the businessWe are not ‘order takers’ but responsible for the service we are developingFor us that means:All our teams strive to do continuous delivery – we do small, incremental releases and follow agile practicesWe are empowered to use technology and tools to automate as much as possibleWe build small services and strive to break up monolithic systems where we have themEach small team is responsible for everything from the requirements to the development to running it in Production. If we build it, we own it.

As our Java Engineer, you will: 

Creating usable, efficient and elegant Java codeBuilding a micro-service-based architecture Monitoring production and keeping it stableForeign Exchange business requirements

What Your Day will Look Like

You and your teammates are responsible for all aspects of delivering software to users:

DevelopmentAutomating testing and deployment of small and frequent releasesSpeaking to the product owner and business on features and requirementsProduction availability of your service – if you build a service, you own the service

You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role: 

Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environmentExperience with Java 17 (Concurrency, data structures, lock-free, wait free code, low latency, lambdas) Familiar with TDD, continuous integration, jUnit, continuous deployment and testingExperience with REST and messaging technologiesUnderstanding of DevOps practices

Skills preferred, but not mandatory:

FX business knowledge an advantage, but focus is on technical skillsDemonstrates a passion for software development outside of work through involvement in open source, working groups etc.

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. 

You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role: 

Must be passionate about technology and demonstrate their aptitude for exploring, learning and building technology Be able to work well in a team and be an excellent communicator Be interested in solving problems and flexible and adaptable in doing so Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines in a dynamic environmentExperience with Java 17 (Concurrency, data structures, lock-free, wait free code, low latency, lambdas) Familiar with TDD, continuous integration, jUnit, continuous deployment and testingExperience with REST and messaging technologiesUnderstanding of DevOps practices

Skills preferred, but not mandatory:

FX business knowledge an advantage, but focus is on technical skillsDemonstrates a passion for software development outside of work through involvement in open source, working groups etc.

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.