Java Developer / Sr. Associate Director

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join 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, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
Role: Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering
In This Role, You Will
Design and implement business-critical workflow orchestration using Flowable BPMN/DMN engine — including Java delegates, task listeners, and decision tables
Build and maintain RESTful microservices in a hexagonal (ports & adapters) architecture with CQRS read/write service separation
Implement complex multi-step approval workflows (1LoD/2LoD review chains, auto-approval logic, scope manager integration)
Work with PostgreSQL databases across multiple schemas, JPA/Hibernate entity mappings, and Spring Data repositories Integrate with GCP Pub/Sub for audit event publishing and asynchronous communication
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
8+ years Java (Java 21, records, pattern matching, sealed classes)
5+ years Spring Boot (3.x/4.x, auto-configuration, profiles, actuator, security) Spring Cloud — Feign clients, service discovery patterns, distributed configuration
Flowable or Activiti — BPMN process design, DMN decision tables,
JavaDelegate/TaskListener implementation, process variable management, history service queries
JPA/Hibernate — entity relationships, derived queries, custom JPQL, schema migration strategies PostgreSQL — query optimization, indexing, understanding of N+1 query patterns RESTful API design — pagination, filtering, CQRS patterns, DTO mapping Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito, integration testing with embedded databases,
REST Assured Git — branching strategies, code review, merge conflict resolution
Preferred Skills
GCP — Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, GKE deployment, Cloud SQL
Hexagonal architecture — ports & adapters, domain-driven design
Helm/Kubernetes — chart authoring, Skaffold, container lifecycle
CI/CD pipelines — Cloud Build, automated testing, environment promotion
Performance optimization — identifying N+1 Feign/query problems, batch endpoint design, caching strategies
Lombok, MapStruct — code generation, DTO mapping
OpenAPI/Swagger — API documentation, contract-first design
What We Value
Engineers who read existing code before writing new code
Clean, minimal changes — no speculative abstractions or premature generalization
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India

Work arrangement
Hybrid