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Backend Engineering lead Senior Associate

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Backend Engineering lead Senior Associate in Others

  • Pune, India

Responsibilities

  • Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices, including resilience, scalability, latency, observability, and security.
  • Define and drive modernization roadmaps involving re-platforming, refactoring, and microservices decomposition with minimal disruption to live services.
  • Establish engineering standards for API design, event-driven integration, data modeling, testing strategy, CI/CD, and operational readiness.
  • Architect, design, and build core services using Java, Spring Boot, JPA, PostgreSQL or another relational database, and event-streaming patterns.
  • Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink or Apache Beam where appropriate.
  • Partner with engineers on code reviews, pair debugging, performance tuning, and production incident resolution.
  • Build automation for engineering efficiency using scripting, tooling, testing, and Python where needed.
  • Drive engineering delivery on GCP using Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, BigQuery or ClickHouse, and GKE.
  • Own operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, reliability improvements, and cost optimization.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
  • Recent, demonstrable hands-on Java experience with Spring Boot, REST and event-driven services, JPA/Hibernate, and SQL performance tuning.
  • Proven system-design expertise covering microservices, asynchronous messaging, idempotency, consistency models, caching, rate limiting, and failure handling.
  • Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions, preferably on GCP or an equivalent cloud platform with the ability to translate experience.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and deployment tooling, including GKE, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver or Cloud Monitoring, and distributed tracing.
  • Experience applying cloud and Kubernetes security practices such as secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, and secure SDLC.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.
  • Front-end exposure to React and TypeScript is helpful but not essential.

Benefits

  • HSBC offers continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities for career growth within an inclusive and diverse workplace.

HSBC

HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it se...

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