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HSBC Tech Stack

Global bank spanning retail, wealth, commercial and investment banking

Financial Services London 10,001+ employees Public Company

HSBC is a London-headquartered universal bank whose engineering runs on Java and Spring microservices with Kafka, Kubernetes and a multi-cloud footprint across Azure, AWS and GCP, while AS/400 persists alongside. Early adoption of CodeWhisperer and Kong, plus an AI Solution Lead hire and group AI platform projects, points to a push into AI-assisted development and API governance. Hiring skews finance-heavy and senior.

Tech Stack 199 technologies

Core StackJava Kafka MongoDB Redis Docker Kubernetes Jenkins SonarQube PostgreSQL AWS SAS Python React Angular Vue JavaScript Redux Webpack Vite TypeScript Bloomberg Spring Boot Spring Cloud Azure GCP AS/400 DLP MobX Zustand Rollup+169 more
AdoptingCodeWhisperer Kong

What HSBC Is BuildingChallenges and projects from their job posts

◆Challenges

  • AML compliance and regulatory change delivery
  • Managing operational risk across the group
  • Meeting security compliance requirements
  • Reducing recurring production incidents
  • Acquiring UHNW clients and expanding IFA network
  • Capturing cross-selling opportunities

▲Active Projects

  • Group AI platform implementation and tooling
  • Software supply chain security
  • Automation of P&L reporting
  • Agent hub UI/UX build
  • BNM foreign exchange policy process implementation
  • Fraud awareness program

Hiring Activity

Accelerating360 roles · 140 in 30d

Department

Finance
123
Engineering
58
Sales
53
Ops
28
Support
27
Data
21
Product
14
Legal
11

Seniority

Senior
122
VP
60
Director
52
Manager
49
Junior
29
Mid
28
Lead
11
C-Level
2

Notable leadership hires: QA Tech Lead, Relationship Director, Python Full Stack Lead, AI Solution Lead, Chief Technology Office

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About HSBC

HSBC is a publicly listed financial services group headquartered in London, with shares traded on the London, Hong Kong, New York and Bermuda exchanges. It serves more than 40 million customers, from individual savers and investors to large corporations and governments. Its business spans retail banking, wealth management, insurance, commercial and corporate banking, and investment banking. The network covers 58 countries and territories, and the group employs over 10,000 people.

HeadquartersLondon
Company Size10,001+ employees
Hiring MarketsChina, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mexico, Singapore, United Kingdom, Taiwan, India

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does HSBC use?

HSBC uses Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins, runs on Azure, AWS and GCP, keeps AS/400, and builds frontends in React, Angular and TypeScript.

Is HSBC hiring in 2024?

Yes, hiring is accelerating, led by finance, then engineering and sales, with a senior-heavy mix. Countries include the United Kingdom, China, India, Singapore, Mexico, Vietnam and the United States.

What AI projects is HSBC working on?

HSBC is implementing a group AI platform and building AI tools for it, adopting CodeWhisperer, and recruiting an AI Solution Lead, alongside work on an agent hub UI/UX.

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How this profile is built

HSBC's technology stack, projects, and hiring signals are inferred from public hiring and company data — career pages, public listings, and company web presence — then clustered and de-duplicated. Figures are estimates that refresh over time. Read our full methodology →

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