Lead Java Developer / Associate Director, Software Engineering

About the role

HSBC’s Fixed Income Algo team seeks a Lead Java Developer to deliver new pricing functionality, market connectivity, and workflows across multiple regions. The role involves full-stack architecture, design, and development of high-performance JVM systems while mentoring engineers and partnering with trading stakeholders. This position is based in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

What you’ll do

• Deliver new pricing functionality, market connectivity, and workflows
• Participate in front to back architecture, design, and development activities
• Partner with trading, quant, and product stakeholders to improve strategies
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Contribute to UI capabilities for automated trading workflows
• Expand testing/back testing capability to ensure lower defect rates
• Integrate with existing Fixed Income electronic trading platform
• Conduct research on technology and business process best practices

What you’ll bring

• Strong Java/Scala server-side development experience
• Proven skills in multi-threaded development
• Experience designing high performance / low latency systems
• Ability to implement reusable object-oriented or functional designs
• Hands-on experience with e-Trading protocols like FIX and SBE
• Track record of agile delivery of business requirements
• Full ownership of mission critical production systems
• Knowledge of fixed income market mechanics

Nice to have

• Experience implementing global, distributed systems in a mission critical/trading environment
• Experience with web-based (HTML5) front end technologies
• Experience with BDD/TDD
• Operation of trading desks in a large Investment Bank or Hedge Fund

Skills

Benefits

• Continuous professional development
• Flexible working opportunities