Principal Engineer

O projekcie: Enjoy coding and staying on top of the emerging trends? Passionate about open source? Love connecting, supporting and building tech communities? Then this might be the role for you! As a Principal Engineer you will be comfortable spending 80% of your time coding, providing thought leadership and being a role model to the wider teams. You will experiment and research innovative ways of solving difficult technical problems. Enterprise Technology (ET) is a Global Function encompassing platforms that are vital to the bank’s operation. ET’s mission is to “Enable, Protect and Delight” HSBC’s global businesses. Our inclusive culture means a lot to us, and we are searching for intellectually curious, compassionate people who are eager to grow their skills. Your primary responsibility will be to drive `Engineering Excellence’. You will demonstrate a passion for delivering quality software efficiently and reducing toil. In addition, you will drive high standards across the department and be a role model exemplifying these standards. You will be able to develop and communicate technical strategy and influence stakeholders in the delivery of IT solutions aligned to HSBC Technology’s strategic vision. There is a specific emphasis on Java / Python & containerisation to ensure risk and compliance data processing can be executed at scale and cloud agnostic. Understanding and experience of Kubernetes and serverless technologies is essential. This role demands a deep awareness of technology, best practices, and emerging trends across the industry. You will be able to mobilise ideas safely within the controlled framework ET operate in. What we offer The pay range for this role is 32,792.00 - 49,183.33 PLN. Additional car allowance in the amount of 7,397.00 PLN (monthly, gross). Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance. We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing * Additional bonuses for recognition awards * Multisport card * Private medical care * Life insurance * One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN). * Cafeteria platform * Employee assistance program * Additional contributions to PPK scheme * Corporate parties & events * CSR initiatives * Nursery and kindergarten discounts * Financial support with trainings and education * Social fund * Flexible working hours * Free parking Wymagania: Requirements - Hands-on, AI-first engineer who ships to production; strong development practices and SDLC/architecture/engineering standards. - Deep expertise in Java or Python (ideally also JavaScript/Go); event-driven processing experience or strong willingness to learn. - Accountable, collaborative, and team-first; communicates clearly (code + stakeholders) and can articulate big-picture technical vision. - Proactive problem-solver focused on business impact; respected for delivery and takes a holistic approach. - Coaches/mentors others; actively adopts new tech/processes, thinks ahead, and guides teams—generalist mindset preferred. - Ideally contributes externally (blogs/podcasts/communities, GitHub, open source). Ideally - Has domain knowledge of Front-to-back traded markets and/or payments processing, - Has demonstrable experience in high volume, multi-product, data processing, including batch, streaming, continuous processing, DataBricks / Lakehouse, - Is a GCP certified professional with practical experience of designing building and running large-scale data processing applications as part of a DevSecOps team, - Has exposure to / experience of Data Science and MLOps, - Has practical experience of designing, building and running containerised workloads and applications, on-prem and on-Cloud, - Has some exposure to / understanding of no/lo-code workflow tooling like Appian, and if possible, experience of migrating workloads off these tools and writing apps to replace them, leveraging opensource alternatives like Activiti, Flowable etc. - Demonstrates mastery of their technical discipline - Experienced and comfortable operating in a highly regulated environment and the security and control framework this necessitates. Codzienne zadania: - Ship production code as a hands-on engineer, applying an AI-first approach and designing for automation from day one to reduce toil and accelerate secure delivery. - Translate business opportunities into technical solutions where business value is central. - Choose the right tool for the job, explain trade-offs, and help others do the same. - Track and apply modern full-stack/platform shifts (containers, Kubernetes, cloud, virtualisation, service mesh, data lakes, storage, cloud networking) and take a visionary view of what’s next. - Build relationships with stakeholders/partners and strengthen engineering communities that raise quality and efficiency; confidently challenge current perspectives to steer towards better paths. - Coach and mentor across teams; in Poland, champion Engineering Excellence and represent HSBC engineers externally. - Role-model continuous learning and guide the engineering community on evolving trends.