# Senior Full Stack Engineer

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Sheffield
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Full Stack Engineer. In this role, you will focus on hands-on engineering across backend microservices, UI applications, and databases to deliver a first-in-class solution iteratively into the hands of users.

You’ll help shape the architecture and design aligned to a Java 21+ microservice structure while raising standards for quality and operational readiness. Working with a global team, you’ll partner with business and engineering leadership to clarify requirements and translate them into deliverable outcomes.

Success means reliable, frequent production change and services that run smoothly in Docker containers on Kubernetes within GCP. You’ll also strengthen engineering practices across testing, code review, documentation, and continuous improvement.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

Responsibilities:

- Build and release backend microservices, UI applications, and database changes into production for CDD

- Shape architecture and design aligned to a Java 21+ microservice structure

- Accelerate delivery cadence across the team through hands-on contribution and reliable production change

- Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and embed modern software development practices

- Partner with business and engineering leadership to understand requirements and align delivery across the wider team

- Strengthen engineering culture across testing, code review, operational readiness, documentation, and continuous improvement

- Remove impediments, surface risks, and communicate issues to programme management

- Support delivery and operational excellence for services running in Docker containers on Kubernetes within GCP

Requirements:

- Bring extensive hands-on software engineering experience designing, developing, and deploying backend applications to production

- Demonstrate proven experience shaping engineering practice and supporting engineering and cultural change across teams

- Show strong experience designing microservices and broader microservice architecture

- Evidence delivery experience releasing change to production at high cadence with reliability

- Apply strong CI/CD practice across build, test, and deployment workflows

- Build and deliver RESTful APIs to production

- Design schemas and work extensively with PostgreSQL databases

- Develop UI applications using ReactJS and support end-to-end delivery across the stack

- Work confidently with Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP in production environments

- Build backend services in Java (Java 21+ preferred)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- microservices
- ReactJS
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- CI/CD
- RESTful APIs

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