Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Shenzhen_GenAI Agent Platform SME) (Guangzhou, GD, CN, 510620)

HSBC
Guangzhou
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical decision-making","Engineering quality focus","Mentoring","Collaboration","High-trust execution"]

Own and deliver core engineering problems for HSBC’s GenAI agent platform, including AI gateway capabilities, security guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic platform services. Design and implement production-grade services in Go with strong performance, reliability, and maintainability. Make sound architectural decisions across service boundaries, observability, rollout safety, and operability, while driving quality through testing and secure design and mentoring peer engineers as a high-trust contributor.

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Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Shenzhen_GenAI Agent Platform SME) (Guangzhou, GD, CN, 510620)

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Job Summary

Own and deliver core engineering problems for HSBC’s GenAI agent platform, including AI gateway capabilities, security guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic platform services. Design and implement production-grade services in Go with strong performance, reliability, and maintainability. Make sound architectural decisions across service boundaries, observability, rollout safety, and operability, while driving quality through testing and secure design and mentoring peer engineers as a high-trust contributor.
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 with focus on concurrency, latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
  • •Make technical decisions on service boundaries, interface design, failure handling, observability, rollout safety, and long-term operability.
  • •Drive implementation quality with disciplined engineering practices such as code review, automated testing, performance validation, secure software design, and technical documentation.
  • •Convert loosely defined requirements into clear designs, delivery slices, and durable technical solutions, collaborating with engineers to improve platform architecture and execution.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing or operating 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 pipelines, embeddings, retrieval strategies, ranking, and evaluation.
  • •Experience with agentic systems or platforms to build, orchestrate, and govern production-ready AI agents.
  • •Working knowledge of Go (Golang) and/or Python, plus Kubernetes and cloud-native production systems.
Experience:Enterprise softwareAI platformsCloud-native systemsMicroservicesAgentic AI
Skills:Technical decision-makingEngineering quality focusMentoringCollaborationHigh-trust execution
Tech Stack:GoGolangPythonAPIRetrieval-augmented generationEmbeddingsKubernetesCloud-nativeAgentic systemsObservability

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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