# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Some careers have more impact than others. If you're looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you'll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Software Engineer.

**Principal Responsibilities**

- Deliver AI-enabled applications from prototype to production, taking ownership of assigned features, integrations, or workstreams.

- Build and enhance application components using technologies such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs, databases, and web or backend frameworks.

- Assist in integrating LLM, RAG, embeddings, model APIs, prompt workflows, and automation capabilities into business applications.

- Work with business users and technical stakeholders to understand workflows, clarify requirements, and translate them into practical technical designs and delivery tasks.

- Prepare proof of concepts, demos, technical prototypes, and small production features to validate solution ideas with users.

- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following team standards and enterprise engineering practices.

- Own testing, debugging, logging, monitoring, deployment preparation, and issue investigation for assigned AI application components.

- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data specialists, platform teams, security teams, and operations teams to deliver solutions safely.

- Document technical designs, implementation notes, test results, user feedback, and operational guidance clearly.

- Apply HSBC standards for security, data privacy, access control, responsible AI, resilience, and production readiness throughout delivery.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

- Around 3 years of hands-on experience in AI engineering, LLM application development, machine learning engineering, data engineering, backend development, full-stack development, or related technical roles.

- Practical hands-on experience in AI/ML or LLM applications, such as prompts, embeddings, RAG/Graph RAG, model APIs, AI agents, agent harness engineering, agent memory management, evaluation, data pipelines, or AI-assisted workflow automation.

- Strong programming skills in Python, with the ability to build production-quality scripts, APIs, agent orchestration logic, data processing logic, AI integration components, evaluation and monitoring utilities, guardrail components, or automation tools.

- Working software engineering capability in one additional development language or ecosystem such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or similar, with the ability to contribute across backend, frontend, and integration layers.

- Work experience involving AI-powered applications, such as chatbot/assistant solutions, document search, knowledge retrieval, Text-to-SQL, data extraction, model integration, or workflow automation.

- Familiarity with common engineering practices including Git, code review, unit testing, debugging, documentation, API usage, environment setup, CI/CD concepts, and release support.

- Ability to evaluate new AI tools and frameworks quickly, understand model and agent behaviour through testing, evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and AI safety practices, and apply them to practical business problems.

- Good problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to investigate issues hands-on across code, data, prompts, retrieval results, API responses, logs, and user feedback.

- Clear communication skills and strong ownership for assigned features or workstreams, with the ability to work with engineers, AI specialists, and business users in a collaborative environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- APIs
- databases
- web or backend frameworks
- LLM
- RAG
- embeddings
- model APIs
- prompt workflows
- automation capabilities
- Git
- code review
- unit testing
- debugging
- documentation
- API usage
- environment setup
- CI/CD concepts
- release support

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