HSBC

Associate Director, Software Engineering(Productivity Suite)

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1 day ago
Guangzhou, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Write, review, test, and ship production code for HSBC Productivity Suite.
  • Design and deliver generative AI capabilities and integrations from requirements through production operation.
  • Make technical design decisions, clarify ambiguity, and break complex requirements into actionable deliveries.
  • Build secure, resilient, maintainable, observable, and production-ready services.
  • Improve shared frameworks, platforms, and reusable capabilities while reducing duplication and technical debt.
  • Promote safe and effective use of AI coding tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.
  • Participate in production incidents, service restoration, incident reviews, and resulting improvements.
  • Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and practical support.
  • Inform technical direction through engineering expertise and evidence.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on software engineering experience designing, coding, testing, and operating significant applications or product capabilities.
  • Strong Python expertise and practical knowledge of application programming interfaces, databases, containers, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
  • Experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot to prototype, write, test, and review code safely.
  • Experience building AI, machine-learning, or generative AI solutions and moving them from experimentation into secure, reliable production use.
  • Practical knowledge of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and responsible AI.
  • Sound engineering judgment across performance, security, resilience, maintainability, accessibility, technical debt, and production operability.
  • Ability to clarify ambiguous requirements and deliver robust solutions with limited oversight.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, technical explanation, constructive challenge, and mentoring skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible working and opportunities for continuous professional development and career growth within an inclusive and diverse workplace.
  • The role is based in Guangzhou or Xi'an, China; candidates with immediate local work authorization and no relocation need will be prioritized.

Tech Stack

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About HSBC

10,000+ employees

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 serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.

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