About the project

• In today’s digital world, HSBC needs to continuously develop innovative ways of customer interaction with our products and services. We are building new technology and enhancing our existing systems and offerings, to allow us to maximise the benefits of the latest technological advancements and trends.
• This role will be within the Third-Party Services team. Third Party Services is focused on identifying and working with some of the most interesting external vendors from around the world to provide cutting edge products to the wider bank and our more than 40 million global customers.
• One of our most strategic products is a global digital identity validation & authentication service that provides any market with the ability to verify a person’s identity, via an API integration. We partner with a selection of third-party vendors to deliver real time identity and anti-impersonation checks as part of a digital journey.
• Our product enables customer to capture their government issued identity document (including passport, driver’s license, national ID card) and verifies the document’s authenticity. This is then combined with fully digital anti-impersonation check.

Your responsibilities

• Defining, building and testing technical solutions in an agile environment. The platform is primary using Java & JavaScript (React.js) hosted on public cloud
• Writing infrastructure terraform/cloud formation and CI/CD pipelines in groovy
• Writing unit tests in Spock, e2e tests in cucumber, contract-based tests in PACT
• Defining architecture and solutions including R&D on cloud and 3rd party vendors’ services

Our requirements

• Strong technical skills specifically in cloud-based technology (AWS serverless or, other public cloud is essential) and Java
• DevOps experience, especially with terraform would be a big plus
• Quality driven with ability to write tests on any level with BDD & TDD approach
• Understanding microservices architecture
• Understanding of front-end technologies including Java Script, Android and iOS is a plus
• Comfortable working agile environment in a small cross functional team using XP practices
• Good English both oral and written is essential

Technologies we use

What we offer

• Very friendly small scrum team with big amount of autonomy, containing strong engineers, product owner and scrum master – everyone local

• Independence in terms of architecture and development approach

• Guarantee that solution built will be wildly used and globally recognized, hopefully making customers happy by simplifying their interaction with a bank

• Personal development and growth opportunities within the bank, long term relationship even for contracting roles

• Ability to work in an environment where quality is put over quantity, where it is understood that technical excellence speeds up not delay delivery

• Unprecedented learning opportunity in pure serverless AWS environment from experts inside the team

• Pleasantly agile environment with reasonable scrum, enriched by extreme programming elements with emphasis on full protection & appreciation of software engineers

• Currently using Java 21