Lead UI Developer / Engineer (Reactjs) - Fixed Income Trading

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.

Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

We work in small, agile DevOps teams with colleagues around the world from our offices at the Bluefin Building in Southwark, our global headquarters in Canary Wharf, and multiple other locations around the UK including Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Birmingham.

Business area overview

Global Debt Markets (GDM) IT supports the Global Debt Markets Business within HSBC’s Markets and Securities Services organisation. The GDM Business are the principle market makers for Credit and Rates products within the HSBC Markets business.

The Falcon UI is a core piece of the Global Debt Markets (GDM) technology estate and the foundation upon which the GDM Trader Desktop is built. Falcon teams work on nearly every part of the front office application estate from Risk and Trading Booking to Electronic Trading and Market Making.

The Falcon framework is a state-of-the-art trading and risk application platform utilized across various businesses at HSBC built on HTML5 and React. The framework is designed for scalability, high throughput, responsiveness and availability to meet high standards of the trading desks. Using the latest technologies, applications based on Falcon compete with industry leading solutions in robustness, scalability as well as aesthetics. Falcon applications are quickly evolving at a high release cadence contributed by a large team of developers from across IT.

What you will be doing;

• Working with the Business, IT development and support teams to ensure successful prioritisation of competing business and technical requirements
• Coordinating closely with business product owners, UX designers and full stack development teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Able to lead a program of work with a high degree of autonomy, self-organisation and discipline.
• Ensuring consistent processes across the development lifecycle and working closely with other Falcon and F2B teams to continually improve the DevOps pipeline.
• Identifying and collaborating on re-use opportunities within the broader Falcon community, both as a consumer and produce of components.
• Providing advice and support to other members of the team and the project teams
• Contributing to and collaborating to improve the overall Falcon application beyond their specific projects.

Control

Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business in which you are involved, specifically Internal Controls and any Compliance policy including, inter alia, the Group Compliance policy.

Maintain HSBC Internal Control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.

Be aware of the operational risk associated with the role and understand how to manage scenarios where there are breaches in process.

What you will bring to the role;

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:

• A track record of building UI’s as part of multi-tier applications.
• Experience with Javascript/React.js or similar
• Experience with Java
• Experience supporting a global busiess and collaborating with multiple teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Has an analytical approach to problem solving
• Keen sense of ownership, carried through the full SDLC from specification to production support
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Team player, with a proven awareness of the importance of team working in a fast paced highly technical environment
• Interested in learning new skills and flexibility to work on anything that we have – some of our stuff is Java, React.js, Scala, Mongo, etc… You may not be an expert, but we still expect you to try and learn to get the job done.