Senior Software Engineer - Golang

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. Help us build the internal platform behind how Macquarie engineers work, delivering production grade systems optimised for reliability and 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?

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As a product centric Senior Software Engineer (Golang), you’ will contribute across the full SDLC including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations, with a relentless focus on product quality and developer experience. Your work will centre on Macquarie’s internal developer platform: enhancing reproducible, containerised developer environments (including VS Code setup), expanding feature addons, deepening integrations across the end-to-end Macquarie SDLC, and improving reliability, performance, and developer experience at scale. You’ll collaborate with platform, cloud, and security teams to help drive standards and APIs, provide production support for a product used daily by engineers globally, and operate in a lean, high impact environment with broad ownership, taking features from concept to production.

What you offer

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• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 2+ years with Golang building production systems 
• Strong grasp of Go fundamentals: concurrency (goroutines, channels), interfaces, error handling, testing 
• Proven engineering best practices (CI/CD, code reviews, pair programming) and a bias for automation and simplicity 
• Experience with Linux, Docker, and operating containerised workloads (Kubernetes experience valued) 
• Proficiency with SDLC tooling (e.g., Git, pipelines, work tracking) and integrating platform services (secrets, observability, artifacts) 
• Cloud experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) 
• Familiarity with AI assisted developer tooling (e.g., Claude) and interest in applying it to improve developer experience 
• Ability to review, refactor, and elevate code quality and architecture; strong attention to detail in developer facing products 
• Comfortable working with high autonomy and end-to-end ownership in a lean, product minded team 
• Some experience with microservices, distributed systems, and modern API design
• Understanding of network fundamentals, cross platform developer environments, Windows & WSL2 and relational databases   
• Frontend awareness would helpful, with an understanding of modern web fundamentals; our UI components currently use JavaScript/Vue, but any modern frontend background is welcome 

 

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

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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

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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

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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.