Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (AI Gateway Tech Lead)

HSBC
Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xi'an
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Stakeholder management","Collaboration","Continuous improvement"]

Lead an engineering team within CTO Platforms (AI Platforms) to design and deliver an AI Gateway. Own the technical vision and roadmap, oversee end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment, and ensure reliable, low-latency performance for high-concurrency banking scenarios. Drive agile delivery, establish engineering standards and governance, and integrate standardized APIs (REST/WebSocket), model versioning, security controls, monitoring, and logging with HSBC’s AI infrastructure.

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Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (AI Gateway Tech Lead)

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Job Summary

Lead an engineering team within CTO Platforms (AI Platforms) to design and deliver an AI Gateway. Own the technical vision and roadmap, oversee end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment, and ensure reliable, low-latency performance for high-concurrency banking scenarios. Drive agile delivery, establish engineering standards and governance, and integrate standardized APIs (REST/WebSocket), model versioning, security controls, monitoring, and logging with HSBC’s AI infrastructure.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xi'an
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, setting goals, running performance reviews, and providing technical guidance.
  • •Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for the AI Gateway aligned to the bank’s AI Platform strategy, evaluating emerging technologies and patterns.
  • •Oversee end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment, ensuring standardized API access, model versioning, authentication/authorization, rate limiting, monitoring, and logging.
  • •Ensure service reliability and performance (low latency, scalability, high throughput) via monitoring, load testing, optimization, and incident response.
  • •Lead agile delivery by setting timelines, prioritizing work, managing dependencies, tracking progress, and enforcing engineering standards and quality assurance.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (equivalent experience considered).
  • •8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years as a tech lead/engineering leader on large-scale platform initiatives.
  • •Hands-on AI gateway/API gateway architecture experience, with strong preference for Kong API Gateway knowledge and familiarity with Portkey-AI, APISIX, or Higress.
  • •Expertise across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud) and advanced enterprise Kubernetes operations (ingress strategies and optimizations).
  • •Expert in Golang and Python (concurrency, memory, performance tuning) and high-throughput asynchronous systems (messaging queues/Pub-Sub), with mentoring and end-to-end delivery capability.
Experience:8+ yearsEnterprise bankingAI platformsAPI gatewaysKubernetesCloud
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringStakeholder managementCollaborationContinuous improvement
Tech Stack:GolangPythonREST APIsWebSocketKong API GatewayPortkey-AIAPISIXHigressAWSGCPAzureAlibaba CloudKubernetesPub-SubMessaging queuesAI gatewayAPI gateway

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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