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Your career opportunity

Join CIB IT, where we operate like a technology company within the bank, building modern engineering solutions that power HSBCs wider strategy and help teams deliver value faster through DevOps and Agile. As a Senior Software Engineer, youll work in small, empowered product teams developing and supporting high-impact platforms and products used by colleagues and customers globally, with a strong focus on quality, accessibility, and iterative delivery.

What youll do

• Work as part of a product team of 4 to 6 engineers with a dedicated Product Owner, sometimes collaborating across locations.
• Turn business requirements into well-defined user stories and deliver them iteratively all the way to production.
• Own product support as part of the role, following the principle the team builds it, the team supports it.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, balancing improvements with delivery of new functionality.
• Design solutions for new items, ensuring alignment with technology guidelines and constraints.
• Pair with other engineers to improve design quality, share knowledge, and accelerate delivery.
• Contribute to a DevOps and Agile way of working, helping the team improve how it builds, tests, releases, and supports software.
• Experiment, learn quickly, and adapt approaches when needed, treating controlled failure as an opportunity to learn.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Willingness to learn and work with multiple programming languages.
• Demonstrable, hands-on experience with at least one programming language.
• Experience with Java and JavaScript, including client-side and server-side development, is strongly aligned with the teams current stack.
• Working knowledge of Unix environments.
• Solid understanding of databases from a consumer perspective, including how applications interact with data stores.
• Knowledge of HTTP APIs, such as RESTful APIs.
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively in English.
• A flexible, curious mindset with a practical approach to trying new ideas and discarding experiments that dont work.