Join our Technology team supporting the Commodities and Global Markets business—a dynamic, collaborative group evolving a broad suite of Trading, Risk, Transaction, and Data platforms. You'll build impactful, production-grade systems, optimising for reliability and high performance.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You'll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.
What role will you play?
As a Senior Java Engineer, you'll contribute across the full SDLC—architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations. You'll solve complex engineering problems and deliver resilient, high‑performance software. Your work will power key initiatives across large-scale distributed systems: designing new features, modernising services, driving migrations, improving reliability and performance, and providing production support where needed.
What you offer
* 6+ years of hands-on Core Java experience
* 4+ years with Spring and Spring Boot
* Strong grasp of modern Java (streams, concurrency, performance tuning), OOP, functional programming, data structures, and algorithms
* Proven application of engineering best practices (TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD, code reviews)
* Deep understanding of microservices design and patterns
* Ability to review, refactor, and elevate code quality and architecture
* Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases and Linux/Shell scripting
* Proficiency with SDLC tooling (e.g., Jenkins, JIRA, Git)
* Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs; familiarity with modern service-to-service communication patterns is a plus
* Cloud experience with AWS and containerisation/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Exposure to modern front-end frameworks (Angular or React)
* Experience with messaging/streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS)
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.
What we offer
At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:
* 1 wellbeing leave day per year
* Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
* Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers
* 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
* Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave
* Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
* Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
* Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
* Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
* Reimbursement for work from home equipment
About Technology
Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We're a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.
Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.