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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 up 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.

Futures Technology is a global team providing technology services to the HSBC Futures business. The team is managing multiple Listed Derivatives e-Trading platforms, delivering key client, and regulatory/exchange driven projects – helping our global business and its customers to succeed.

Using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the centre of everything we do. We strive to engineer performant, scalable, and reliable systems that enable our business to grow clients and revenue. We care about implementing working agile, hand-in-hand with our business partners to realize their goals whilst maintaining technical excellence.

The Futures technology team manage and maintain a combination of external vendor platforms and internally developed systems. The eTrading platforms cover all areas of eTrading, from client order entry, Algorithmic trading, through the order messages on global exchanges, Pre & Post Trade Risk and Allocation services.

The team spans the 4 main trading hubs (Hong Kong, New York, London, Chicago), with team members in Six locations (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago London and Krakow).

Our team values engineers with a growth mindset who love to learn new things, who are curious, whether that be learning about what our traders are doing or making technical improvements to our systems. We are hungry for diverse ideas and encourage our engineers to challenge the status quo and guide our technology choices as opposed to simply wanting to follow. Technology is an everchanging landscape, so we want full-stack DevOps engineers that enjoy working across technologies. This includes being open to working in new programming languages, across UI, backend, and databases, and configuring infrastructure.

The Futures Front Office Technical Lead (Full Stack Engineer) will work in a devops model and will be responsible for assisting with front-line technology support for HSBC’s Futures IT systems, primarily supporting the US Trading Desk and Europe and Asia as needed.

As our Futures Front Office Technical Lead (Full Stack Engineer) you will:

+ Involve with all phases of futures Technology projects which may include but are not limited to requirements gathering/analysis, design, architecting, project managing, development, testing, and implementation

+ Provide technical support of our Futures execution stack. This will mean supporting both internal and external clients across both internal and vendor platforms and can include FIX client onboarding and certifications

+ Be responsible for incident and problem resolution and ensuring best in class service to our user base

+ Drive a culture of diversity & inclusion, being inquisitive, innovative, data driven, continuous improvement, and learning within team

For this role, HSBC targets a pay range between $145,400.00 and $218,000.00

The final fixed pay offer will depend on the candidate and a number of variables, including but not limited to, role responsibilities, skill set, depth of experience and education, licensing/certification requirements, internal relativity, and specific work location.

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.

Qualifications

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

+ Experience with front office trading is highly required. Previous development skills with Java are required and Python

+ Scripting experience preferably in Python

+ Technically adept, eager to learn and adapt to new technologies, happy to challenge and be challenged

+ Strong technical skills and have experience with Java development and SQL database

+ Experience navigating UNIX/LINUX environments and shell scripting

+ Analytical and have excellent troubleshooting skills

+ Strong Futures eTrading systems and exchange connectivity experience including good knowledge and hands on experience with the FIX Protocol for client FIX certification and normalisation

+ Vendor system knowledge – Itiviti ULLINK, FIS Valdi, TT, Bloomberg TradeBook, Clearvision, Fidessa, etc

+ Good communication skills. Able to interact and work well with traders, back-office personnel, vendors, futures business, other IT teams and clients

+ Ability to get into detail, articulate, and communicate with a ranged of stakeholders from traders, external vendors to developers and engineers

In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in the U.S. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. 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. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including a robust Wellness Hub, all in a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive work environment. You will be empowered to drive HSBC’s engagement with the communities we serve through an industry-leading volunteerism policy, a generous matching gift program, and a comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives. You’ll want to join our Employee Resource Groups as they play a central part in life at HSBC, including the development of our employees and networking inside and outside of HSBC. We value difference. We succeed together. We take responsibility. We get it done. And we want you to help us build the bank of the future!

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.

**Job Field:** Technology

**Primary Location:** North America-United States-New York-New York

**Req ID:** 0000L8TT