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Lead Full Stack Engineer – Join HSBC
We’re one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We’re seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Full Stack Engineer.
About the Role
As our Lead Full Stack Engineer, you’ll modernise and scale SmartServe, our microservices suite powering customer outreach, information capture, and authorisations. Your responsibilities will include delivering production code, shaping architecture and design, accelerating delivery within the team, and partnering with leaders to elevate engineering standards across a global, cross-region organisation.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Be hands-on, delivering code to production, supporting the architecture and design of the system, aligned to a microservices structure.
- Drive faster delivery of code across the wider team through leading by example with both volume and reliability of change.
- Actively engage with business and engineering leadership to ensure requirements are fully understood across the team.
- Bring strategic ideas and solutions to the table, underpinned by a deep understanding of requirements.
- Lead and shape the engineering culture expected across our teams.
- Collaborate with a global team where coordination spans regional boundaries.
- Proactively address impediments, identify risks, and communicate issues to program management.
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement innovative, programmatic solutions to eliminate them.
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Benefits
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll access:
- Tailored professional development opportunities.
- Competitive pay and benefits, including:
- Private healthcare for UK-based employees.
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay, alongside support returning to work.
- A contributory pension scheme with significant employer contributions.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you must meet the following requirements:
- Proven track record in software engineering, including design, development, and deployment of backend applications, alongside driving engineering and cultural changes across teams and delivery processes.
- Strong proficiency in designing individual microservices, as well as broader microservice architecture.
- Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams to deliver high-cadence production changes.
- Solid expertise in CI/CD best practices, tooling, and implementation.
- Hands-on experience delivering RESTful APIs into production.
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, including schema design and daily database development.
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Inclusivity and Opportunity
At HSBC, we strive to create diverse and inclusive workplaces. We value different perspectives and work to remove barriers to ensure careers are accessible for everyone.
- Proud Disability Confident Leader – interviews guaranteed for applicants with disabilities, long-term conditions, or neurodivergent candidates meeting minimum criteria.
- If reasonable adjustments are needed during the recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.
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