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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 skilled to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering
In this role, you will (what you’ll do)
• Lead the hands-on design and development of a developer tooling solution to modernise legacy applications using Moderne and OpenRewrite, taking features from concept through to production.
• Build, test and maintain custom OpenRewrite recipes (Java)



to automate refactoring and accelerate modernisation across multiple codebases.
• Design and develop dashboards, reports and user-facing capabilities around the vendor solution to drive adoption, transparency and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with the vendor and internal engineering teams to shape solution design, define standards and enable consistent onboarding and usage across development teams.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews and mentoring, setting engineering standards and improving overall code quality and delivery practices.
• Assess solution options and trade-offs (benefits, risks, dependencies), document architectural decisions, and proactively navigate the organisation to drive implementation.
• Support the platform in production by diagnosing issues, partnering with the central SRE team for operational management, and continuously improving reliability and user experience.

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📌 Java Backend Engineer/Associate Director, Software Engineering (Pune)
🏢 HSBC
📍 Pune