In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in Canada. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position.

In Canada, HSBC Global Services (Canada) Limited (HGCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited. Operating in Toronto, HGCA is part of a global service company, delivering services to support the operating entities of HSBC Group. We have different capabilities that provide tools and processes to facilitate the functions, business, and entities with their service management responsibilities.

Ready to strengthen FX Options risk monitoring across North America trading hours?

Why HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Opportunity

Join our FX Options technology team in Toronto as a hands-on Senior Java Technical Lead supporting the FX Options Primary Trading System. The FX Option Risk Monitoring System is a key component of Primary Trading, and the team’s remit may expand over time to include the Pricing and Distribution platform and related services.

Key responsibilities

Hands-on technical delivery

- Design, develop, test, release, and support Java services across the FX Options Primary Trading System, including its Risk Monitoring component.
- Implement enhancements and defect fixes directly, taking ownership from analysis through to post-release validation.
- Work with Product, Front Office traders, quant teams,



and technology stakeholders to clarify requirements and make pragmatic technical decisions.
- Manage cross-system impacts across trading, risk, pricing, distribution, and shared data flows as the team’s remit expands.
- Improve resilience, performance, security and observability through effective logging, metrics, alerting, and operational practices.
- Lead incident triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions, while strengthening automated testing and CI/CD quality.

Team growth and technical leadership

- Help establish and grow a small Toronto engineering capability through mentoring, onboarding, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
- Set practical standards for code quality, testing, documentation, design reviews, code reviews, and production support.
- Balance individual delivery with team development, prioritizing business outcomes and production reliability over organizational growth.
- Coordinate work, dependencies and technical decisions with the China-based technical lead and global engineering teams.
- Build clear communication, handover and shared-ownership practices across locations and time zones.

What we’re looking for

Technical experience

- Solid senior-level experience building and supporting Java backend systems in production,



with a proven ability to make code changes independently.
- Strong experience with modern Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices patterns.
- Solid engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, concurrency, performance tuning, clean code, and maintainable architecture.
- Experience delivering resilient, secure, and observable services, supported by automated testing, CI/CD, and effective production operations.
- Experience with incident triage, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation in a production environment.
- Experience in financial services, trading, risk, pricing, market data, distribution, or another high-volume, time-sensitive domain would be advantageous.

Technical leadership and team development

- Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or coaching to software engineers.
- Ability to lead through technical contribution and delivery, rather than relying on formal people-management responsibility.
- Experience establishing pragmatic engineering standards and improving team capability.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with mentoring and coordination responsibilities.
- Strong judgement when prioritizing delivery, operational risk, technical debt and team capacity.
- A collaborative leadership style that values different perspectives and supports shared accountability.

Global delivery experience

- Experience working effectively with globally distributed or cross-border engineering teams.
- Ability to coordinate delivery, technical decisions, dependencies, and handovers across time zones.
- Strong written and v

📌 Senior Java Technical Lead, Foreign Exchange (Canada)
🏢 HSBC Holdings
📍 Canada