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About the Role

Join our FX Options technology team in Toronto as a hands-on Senior Java Technical Lead supporting the FX Options Primary Trading System. This role is primarily focused on delivery, requiring you to design, build, test, release, and support production-quality software. You will take technical ownership of enhancements and defect fixes across the full delivery lifecycle, working closely with Product, Front Office traders, quant teams, and global engineering colleagues. The role also includes an opportunity to help establish and grow a small Toronto-based engineering capability.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, release, and support Java services across the FX Options Primary Trading System, including its Risk Monitoring component.
Implement enhancements and defect fixes directly, taking ownership from analysis through to post-release validation.
Work with Product, Front Office traders, quant teams, and technology stakeholders to clarify requirements and make pragmatic technical decisions.
Manage cross-system impacts across trading, risk, pricing, distribution, and shared data flows as the team’s remit expands.
Improve resilience, performance, security and observability through effective logging, metrics, alerting, and operational practices.
Lead incident triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions, while strengthening automated testing and CI/CD quality.
Help establish and grow a small Toronto engineering capability through mentoring, onboarding, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
Set practical standards for code quality, testing, documentation, design reviews, code reviews, and production support.
Balance individual delivery with team development, prioritizing business outcomes and production reliability over organizational growth.
Coordinate work, dependencies and technical decisions with the China-based technical lead and global engineering teams.
Build clear communication, handover and shared-ownership practices across locations and time zones.

Requirements

Strong senior-level experience building and supporting Java backend systems in production, with a proven ability to make code changes independently.
Strong experience with modern Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices patterns.
Solid engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, concurrency, performance tuning, clean code, and maintainable architecture.
Experience delivering resilient, secure, and observable services, supported by automated testing, CI/CD, and effective production operations.
Experience with incident triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation in a production environment.
Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or coaching to software engineers.
Ability to lead through technical contribution and delivery, rather than relying on formal people-management responsibility.
Experience establishing pragmatic engineering standards and improving team capability.
Ability to balance hands-on development with mentoring and coordination responsibilities.
Strong judgement when prioritizing delivery, operational risk, technical debt and team capacity.
A collaborative leadership style that values different perspectives and supports shared accountability.
Experience working effectively with globally distributed or cross-border engineering teams.
Ability to coordinate delivery, technical decisions, dependencies, and handovers across time zones.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for remote collaboration.
Ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues from different locations, cultures, and professional backgrounds.
Experience working within shared ownership models for delivery and production support.
Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Front Office, Product, quant, and platform partners.
Confidence in clarifying requirements, challenging assumptions and explaining technical trade-offs.
Strong ownership mindset, with the judgement to identify risks early and drive issues through to resolution.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position.

Skills

Java
Spring
Spring Boot
REST APIs
microservices patterns
object-oriented design
concurrency
performance tuning
clean code
maintainable architecture
automated testing
CI/CD
incident triage
root-cause analysis
technical leadership
mentoring
coaching
communication

Location

Toronto

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
Senior-level

Benefits

Access to tailored professional development opportunities
Competitive Total Reward Package
Appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay
Discretionary, annual awards (bonus)
Wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle

About the Company

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world.
Our purpose is opening up a world of opportunity.
Our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.
HSBC Global Services (Canada) Limited (HGCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited.
Operating in Toronto, 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.

Equal Opportunity

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.