Lead Full Stack Engineer
Lead Full Stack Engineer at HSBC in Sheffield, modernising and scaling SmartServe — a microservices suite powering customer outreach, information capture and authorisations. Day to day is hands-on backend coding plus architecture and team leadership, using microservices, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL and CI/CD.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven software engineering track record with design, development and deployment of backend applications
- Strong capability in designing microservices and broader microservice architecture
- Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams to deliver production changes
- Solid experience with CI/CD best practices, tooling and implementation
- Hands-on delivery of RESTful APIs into production
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL including schema design and development
- Leadership and influencing across teams
- Collaborative and cross-functional communication
- Proactive problem-solving and risk management
Full description
Overview
As Lead Full Stack Engineer at HSBC, you modernise and scale SmartServe, our microservices suite powering customer outreach, information capture and authorisations. You will write production code, shape architecture, and raise engineering standards within a global, cross-region team. You’ll partner with business and engineering leaders to understand requirements, accelerate delivery, and drive impactful changes. This role offers impactful work in a large financial services platform and strong development opportunities.
Pay / Benefits
- Private healthcare for UK-based employees
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay
- Contributory pension with generous employer contribution
- Tailored professional development opportunities
- Competitive pay and benefits package
Responsibilities
- Deliver production code and support system architecture aligned to a microservice structure
- Drive faster cadence of code delivery across the team
- Lead by example through the volume and reliability of changes
- Engage with business and engineering leadership to clarify requirements for the wider team
- Propose ideas and solutions based on wider requirements
- Lead and reinforce a high-performing engineering culture across teams
- Collaborate with a global team across regional boundaries
- Proactively remove impediments and communicate risks to program management
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement innovative, programmatic improvements
Key requirements
- Proven software engineering track record with design, development and deployment of backend applications
- Strong capability in designing microservices and broader microservice architecture
- Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams to deliver production changes
- Solid experience with CI/CD best practices, tooling and implementation
- Hands-on delivery of RESTful APIs into production
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL including schema design and development
- Leadership and influencing across teams
- Collaborative and cross-functional communication
- Proactive problem-solving and risk management
- Microservice architecture design
- Backend development
- RESTful APIs