Python Backend / API/ Senior Consultant Specialist

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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.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specalist

The Opportunity

This role focuses on designing and building scalable secure Python applications and APIs that support critical banking and financial services journeys. You’ll shape technical solutions end to end from interpreting complex requirements through to delivery and operational performance. The work sits in a regulated environment where security resilience and observability matter as much as feature delivery.

You’ll help set engineering standards through design and code reviews while partnering with architecture risk and business stakeholders. Success means maintainable services that perform reliably under real world demand and meet security and compliance expectations.

In This Role, You Will

• Design scalable, resilient, and secure Python applications and APIs.
• Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Guide deployments to Kubernetes, Postgres/cloud SQL, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure security, observability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
• Mentor engineers and work with architecture, risk, and business teams.
• Translate complex requirements into scalable, resilient, maintainable, and supportable technical solutions

To Be Successful In This Role, You Should

• 8+ years of Python development, including 2+ years in a lead or architect role.
• Strong experience with Django, FastAPI, or Flask, and REST API design.
• PostgreSQL, SQL performance tuning, and data modeling. Docker, Kubernetes/GKE, and GCP services. CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality tooling.
• Secure coding: OWASP, IAM, secrets management, and encryption.
• System design: microservices, event-driven patterns, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Preferred skills: Banking or financial services experience, such as trade confirmations or post-trade processing. AI/LLM integration, RAG, or document extraction. Terraform or other infrastructure as code. Experience in regulated environment

Building secure API foundations

If you want to build Python services that are secure reliable and built for scale this role offers the scope to make that impact. The work spans design delivery and continuous improvement with clear expectations around quality and operational outcomes. You’ll partner closely across engineering architecture risk and business teams to bring complex requirements to life.

Apply to help set the technical direction for services that matter to customers and the bank every day

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India