# Tech Lead

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Kraków, PODLASKIE
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 28,000 PLN - 33000 PLN
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We're currently hiring for the role of Technical Lead (Full Stack) within HSBC Global FX Services (GFS) in Markets and Securities Services (MSS).

You’ll join a technology team within CIB Technology (our investment bank), where engineering is central to how we deliver electronic trading and FX services.

The Kraków-based pod is part of a global engineering organisation (~50 people) with teams in:

- Europe: UK, Kraków

- APAC: China, Hong Kong

- North America: Toronto

The team builds and supports applications enabling a diverse set of FX services for institutional clients, including:

- FX Prime Brokerage services for the alternative fund manager industry

- FX Hedging services for Asset Managers

- FX order management and execution for Custodians acting on behalf of their clients

As a Technical Lead, you’ll be hands-on while also setting direction and raising engineering standards across the team.

You will:

- Lead the design and delivery of high-volume, low-latency FX systems where performance, scalability, and resiliency matter.

- Drive technical decisions on architecture, microservices patterns, API design, data storage, and front-end integration.

- Act as a coach and multiplier: support engineers through code reviews, pairing/mentoring, and pragmatic guidance on implementation and design trade-offs.

- Own end-to-end delivery in a DevOps model: development, testing, release, observability, and production support.

- Enable frequent and safe releases: the team releases to production daily, using agile practices and iterative delivery.

- Ensure production readiness through instrumentation, alerting, incident readiness, and continuous improvement.

- Partner closely with global colleagues in Guangzhou, Toronto, and London to deliver across time zones.

- Ensure compliance with internal cybersecurity controls, address vulnerabilities, and build secure-by-design solutions.

Working model:

- This role is based in Kraków with an expectation to be in the office twice a week (or as advised by the local Poland entity).

Technology stack:

- Back-end: Java, Spring / Spring Boot, microservices

- Runtime: Linux

- Databases: SQL RDBMS (Sybase / Oracle / PostgreSQL)

- Front-end: Angular, React, JavaScript libraries and frameworks

What you'll need to succeed in this role:

- 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, including substantial Java full stack delivery.

- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, ideally with Spring Boot.

- Solid experience with server-side development in Java (Node.js, Ruby, Go are a plus).

- Strong front-end experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular/React highly desirable).

- Working knowledge of database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.

- Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- Experience in financial services / investment banking is highly valued.

- Demonstrable strengths in:

- Problem-solving and ownership mindset

- Building clean, high-quality, secure solutions

- Agile delivery practices

- Clear communication and stakeholder collaboration

The pay range for this role is 28,000 PLN - 33000 PLN (monthly, gross). Additional car allowance in the amount of 4,786 PLN (monthly, gross).

Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- Linux
- SQL RDBMS
- Angular
- React
- JavaScript

### Nice to have
- Node.js
- Ruby
- Go
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB

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