Associate Director, Software Engineering

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Until 10/6/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 7, 2026 Last posted August 7, 2026
Job 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.

 

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

 

Business: Equities & X Asset Fin Tech

 

Job ID55131

 

Principal responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable and highly available booking platform
  • Contribute and make strategic decisions that affect the design and architecture of this platform.
  • Work closely with the front-office trading and product teams to ensure fast and accurate delivery of new functionality and improvements.
  • Liaise with local compliance, NFR and other risk/control teams to ensure full compliance with the letter and spirit of all relevant regulatory guidelines and requirements.
  • Maintain continuous communication with the wider global team: collaborative development, reviews and strategic decision making.
  • Contribute and influence on the future state architecture.
  • Providue day-to-day support on Production as part of the DevOps team.

 

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications

  • Are passionate about technology and look for opportunities to learn and bring new ideas to the team and even wider
  • Are able to and willing to take challenge
  • Have a strong Agile/DevOps mindset and understand how it works
  • Able to work independently with various stakeholders in global, including product owner/business, architects and upstream/downstream IT stakeholders
  • At least familiar with one of the Micro-service framwork and architecture and open-sources technologies, such as Spring,Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
  • Hands on application design and development experience in Java and Linux based, ideally having Cloud Platform expericience but not mandatory
  • Are able to and willing to mentor new joners and junior developers
  • Ideally having Prime Broker business knowledge, but not mandatory

 

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You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

 

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

 

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***

 

About this role

Summary

Design, develop, and support scalable booking platform, lead technical decisions, mentor team

Job title

Associate Director, Software Engineering

Experience level

senior level

Industry

finance

Location requirements

Guangzhou, China; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

microservice frameworkspringspring bootspring cloudjavalinux

Preferred skills

cloud platform experienceprime broker knowledge

Specializations

microservice architecturespringjavadevopscloud
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Work arrangement unknown City