Java Engineer - Zing

About Zing

Zing is a brand new fintech designed to make international money worry-free for anyone who sends, spends, or converts international currencies. Zing has been developed within the HSBC Group to work for anyone, even if they don’t have a HSBC account, so we can be an agile fintech whilst reaping the benefits of having one of the world’s biggest international banks as our parent. We’ve recently launched in the UK and have ambitious plans to scale both within the UK and internationally at pace. 

Check us out:- https://www.zing.me/.

Why join Zing?

We’re only at the start of our exciting journey but already have generated significant media interest. If you want to help build out a highly visible global fintech and work with a global bank as a partner, then this is the opportunity for you!

• Competitive package + benefits

• Hybrid work arrangements and flexible working hours

• A dynamic and challenging working environment

• Responsibility from day one in a fast growing and global company, in a startup context

• A vibrant and international team with a diverse background

• Regular social and team events

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join Zing by HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, Zing by HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Purpose

Java Engineers are sought to join our mission and help us build a global product that's scalable, reliable and secure. You’ll be building distributed event driven services to integrate new payment methods, reduce latency, and increase payment success rates. Ideally, you’ll also have experience integrating some payment methods. Our engineering teams work in an inclusive environment and are involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, planning, execution, shipping and monitoring. 

We’re keen to hear from Java Developers who care about the customer, adhere to software excellence, are advocates of best practices and love learning new skills.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with global product teams to create and evaluate the product roadmap - inputting on what we should be creating and how we should go about it

• Build scalable services with Java and deal with problems like synchronization, asynchronous operations, database optimisations, scalability and reliability of systems.

• Be the technical voice at the table, prepared to educate and guide the business on the right approach, technology and trends
   

• Design and develop cloud native software systems that are resilient, secure, fast, easy to manage, and scalable in modern, dynamic environments such as public cloud.

• Adopt appropriate software architecture design pattern that is fit for purpose, business scenario and specific use case.

• Build and maintain an in-house framework to integrate multiple banking partners and payment method

• Apply quality software engineering practices through all phases of development and into production

• Contribute with analysis and solutions to fulfill business requirements

• Research, plan and implement integrations with numerous banking and payments systems.

• Be a part of a diverse, dedicated engineering team committed to quality improvements, iterating on products that directly impact millions of users.

What we are looking for

• Hands-on development experience in building global software products.

• We use Java with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, snowflake, Argo CI/CD (and more).  Exposure to Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis is preferable.

• At least 1 year of experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala) and confidence in your ability to build, debug and ship microservices.

• Experience in Agile development practices and comfortable with working in the DevOps culture

• Exposure to building and shipping highly available, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend systems.

• Previous experience around monitoring and observability, potentially security knowledge (Checkmarx, SonarQube & Wiz) – a big plus

• Understanding of data structures, databases and large-scale distributed systems. .

• Ability to forge strong relationships and trusted partnerships

• You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and aggressive timelines

• You actively participate in creating product and software specifications before implementing them.

• Customer focused and suggest how the backend can provide the best Customer Experience.

• You pride yourself on consistent high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring.

• Inspire other engineers to do better!

Great to have

• Any experience in liquidity management, treasury management, accounting, integration with any EMI compliant ledger is a big plus.

• Knowledge of at least how one of these payment methods works would be great: Cards, ACH, SEPA, Wires Fast Transfer

• Experience integrating payment partners in the backend is preferred.

• Exposure to the full stack, from frontend UI to the server side, having knowledge of latest Angular.js and micro front end

• Hands-on experience with AWS and its core architectural components / utilities

If you've got the passion and dedication to help us go the distance and you’re looking for a career that will help you fulfil your potential - join us and make a global impact!

This role is based in London and offers hybrid working

Opening up a world of opportunity

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone -  no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse.

If you’d like to apply for one of our roles and need adjustments made, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com