# Software Engineering - Backend Engineer

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

**Apply**: https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612594733?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f0b6fe46-630

## 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.

**Principal Responsibilities:**

- **Modern Engineering & Platform Transformation**

- Continuously improve stability, scalability, and operability with a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focus.

- Align applications with CCR FSA standards and engineering guardrails.

- Adopt and embed advanced engineering practices across the team, focusing on quality, automation, and secure-by-design principles.

- **Full Delivery Lifecycle Ownership**

- Implement solutions end-to-end, including impact assessment, performance tuning, testing, and deployment.

- Fluidly move between development, testing, and production support based on demand.

- Reduce operational pain via automation and better diagnostics.

- **DevSecOps and Controls**

- Improve key results such as release cadence, incident reduction, and operational efficiency.

- Ensure compliance with IT risk and controls, including secure configuration, auditability, and change discipline.

- **Engineering Leadership & Collaboration**

- Lead or guide developers where needed, driving consistent standards across the team.

- Operate effectively in a global, distributed environment with strong spoken English.

- Apply performance tuning basics, including indexes, query plans, connection pooling, and latency analysis.

- **Ways of Working**

- Demonstrate strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines.

- Lead developers and implement meaningful changes that improve business outcomes sustainably.

**Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:**

- Java (Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud)

- RESTful API design and implementation

- Linux/UNIX + shell scripting for diagnostics/automation

- Container & CI/CD ecosystem: Docker + Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible, and CI/CD patterns (build, test, deploy, rollback)

- Observability / reliability tooling: Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo

- Practical ability to define SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, tracing strategies, and use these in incident resolution

- Data: Oracle (or equivalent enterprise RDBMS) and PostgreSQL

- Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis)

**Additional Skills:**

- HSBC ITSO experience (controls, governance, risk awareness in delivery)

- Investment banking / CCR domain familiarity

- Architecture experience (especially microservices, gRPC, cloud-native patterns)

- GCP/AWS experience or certifications

- Python/Jupyter (useful for analysis, tooling, automation)

- Evidence of engineering community contribution (open source, GitHub, blogs)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring
- RESTful API
- Linux
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Grafana
- Loki
- Prometheus
- Tempo
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL

### Nice to have
- HSBC ITSO experience
- Investment banking / CCR domain familiarity
- Architecture experience
- GCP/AWS experience
- Python/Jupyter

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