C++ Technical Lead (Payments)/ Associate Director, Software Engineering

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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.

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

In this role, you will:

• Proven experience leading end-to-end delivery for complex Tier-0 / mission-critical systems, distributed payment processing services, from design through production support.
• Strong payments domain experience with solid understanding of payment processing concepts (high value/critical flows preferred).
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements (SLA, throughput, latency, availability) into pragmatic designs and delivery plans.
• Demonstrated experience improving resilience, stability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
• Champion engineering excellence: coding standards, design reviews, test strategy, CI/CD quality gates, and operational readiness. Comfortable with usage of JIRA and scrum ceremonies.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to developers and stakeholders; drive consensus across teams (engineering, infra, security, operations).
• Line-manage and mentor engineers: coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning. Build an inclusive, collaborative team culture that values different perspectives and encourages continuous improvement. Plan team capacity, hiring needs, onboarding, and skills development aligned to roadmap priorities.
• Mainstream architectural thinking within the team through mentoring, brown-bags, and structured design practices.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• 12-18 years of strong OOP experience with deep expertise in C++ (design, development, debugging, performance tuning).
• Expertise in diagnosing production issues, including C++ memory leaks/performance (profilers, heap analysis, core dumps, sanitizers, etc.).
• Having extensive experience in Payment domain with good functional knowledge of payment processing concepts.
• 5+ years in a technical lead and/or people manager capacity (line management, coaching, delivery ownership).
• Should have strong understanding of tools used in industry specially to detect issues like memory leak in C++ code.
• Expertise in at least one RDBMS (preferably Oracle) and one NOSQL DB Comfortable with SQL/PL-SQL and Unix scripting for diagnostics, automation, and operational support.
• Predictable delivery of roadmap commitments with strong engineering quality.
• A motivated, growing team with clear standards, strong ownership, and healthy collaboration across stakeholders.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India