Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Group AI Platform SME)

HSBC
Guangzhou
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Engineering judgment","Technical leadership","Mentoring","Quality focus","Documentation"]

Lead delivery of complex engineering work across HSBC’s Group AI Platform, including AI gateway capabilities, security guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic platform services. Design and implement production-grade services using Go (Golang), focusing on concurrency, performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability. Own high-quality engineering practices—testing, observability, secure design, and documentation—while translating emerging needs into durable technical solutions and mentoring engineering peers through technical depth.

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Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Group AI Platform SME)

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Job Summary

Lead delivery of complex engineering work across HSBC’s Group AI Platform, including AI gateway capabilities, security guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic platform services. Design and implement production-grade services using Go (Golang), focusing on concurrency, performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability. Own high-quality engineering practices—testing, observability, secure design, and documentation—while translating emerging needs into durable technical solutions and mentoring engineering peers through technical depth.
Location: Guangzhou
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and deliver difficult engineering problems across core AI platform domains, including AI gateway capabilities, security guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic platform services.
  • •Design and implement production-grade services in Go (Golang), emphasizing concurrency, latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
  • •Make technical decisions across service boundaries, interface design, failure handling, observability, rollout safety, and long-term operability.
  • •Drive implementation quality through disciplined engineering practices such as code review, automated testing, performance validation, secure software design, and clear technical documentation.
  • •Convert loosely defined requirements into clear designs, delivery slices, and durable technical solutions, mentoring peers through technical depth rather than line management.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing or operating AI gateway platforms, service control planes, or API mediation layers in complex enterprise environments.
  • •Familiarity with security controls for AI systems, including policy enforcement, access control, auditability, model governance, and runtime guardrails.
  • •Practical understanding of retrieval-augmented generation architectures, including ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, ranking, and evaluation of answer quality.
  • •Experience with agentic systems or platforms to build, orchestrate, and govern production-ready AI agents.
  • •Working knowledge of Golang and/or Python for platform tooling and adjacent service development, plus Kubernetes and cloud-native production systems experience.
Experience:AI platformsEnterpriseCloud-nativeKubernetesBanking
Skills:Engineering judgmentTechnical leadershipMentoringQuality focusDocumentation
Tech Stack:GoGolangPythonAPIRetrieval-augmented generationRAGEmbeddingsKubernetesCloud-nativeObservabilityGuardrailsAgentic systems

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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