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From the employer's careers site First seen 20 Aug 2026 · Still live on 28 Oct 2026

Full Stack eTrading Engineer

HSBC New York, New York senior full-time

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Description

We’re hiring a seasoned Full Stack eTrading Engineer to work on algorithmic pricing, hedging, and trading automation. You’ll take end-to-end ownership across design, development, testing, and implementation, partnering closely with front office stakeholders in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment.

As our Full Stack eTrading Engineer, you will:

  • Build and enhance electronic trading and algorithmic execution capabilities supporting automated pricing, hedging, and trading workflows
  • Design and deliver low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems for global production use
  • Develop in core Java, with strong focus on multi-threading, concurrency, and performance tuning
  • Work with market connectivity and messaging standards including Financial Information eXchange (FIX) and Simple Binary Encoding (SBE)
  • Own and improve mission-critical production systems in global environments, including operational stability and continuous improvement
  • Partner closely with traders and quantitative analysts, contributing to solution design and constructively challenging architecture where needed

To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Proven relevant experience in front office trading systems
  • Demonstrable experience in algorithmic execution and/or electronic trading
  • Strong expertise in core Java (multi-threading, concurrency, performance tuning)
  • Deep experience building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Practical knowledge of Financial Information eXchange (FIX) and Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) protocols
  • Proven ownership of mission-critical production systems in global environments

Preferred skills:

  • Experience with Fixed Income and/or Foreign Exchange trading workflows
  • Strong testing discipline (unit and integration testing) with a Behavior-Driven Development and Test-Driven Development mindset

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 and inclusive work environment.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • multi-threading
  • concurrency
  • performance tuning
  • Financial Information eXchange (FIX)
  • Simple Binary Encoding (SBE)
  • algorithmic execution
  • electronic trading
  • low-latency
  • high-throughput distributed systems

Nice to have

  • Fixed Income
  • Foreign Exchange
  • testing discipline
  • Behavior-Driven Development
  • Test-Driven Development

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