Macquarie Group
Posted 2mo ago

Principal Engineer - Java - Trade Validation

Macquarie Group
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
HybridFull Time
Responsibilities
  • shaping architecture
  • writing code
  • mentoring engineers
Requirements
  • Hands-on engineering leader with deep Java/JVM and JavaScript expertise
  • Experience with Spring Boot 3.x
  • Cloud-native (preferably AWS)
  • Microservices
  • Containerization, CI/CD
  • Kafka/DBs
  • AI-assisted development, and proven team leadership in complex platforms
Technical tools mentioned
JavaJava 17+JavaScriptSpring Boot 3.xSpring CloudSpring SecurityAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as CodePostgreSQLRedisMSSQLApache KafkaAWS SQSAWS SNSRESTful APIsGitHub CopilotAWS Bedrock

Job description

Join our Market Services Trade Validation team and help shape the next phase of our post-trade platform transformation. The team is evolving a digital-first post-trade lifecycle, partnering closely with business teams and using modern cloud and AI-enabled technologies to reduce manual intervention, move controls closer to trade execution, and validate data at source.
We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

As a hands-on engineering leader, you’ll shape the architecture, delivery, and technical direction of a large-scale financial platform while continuing to write production code regularly. You’ll review pull requests, design microservices architecture, mentor engineers, uplift code quality, and help drive consistent engineering standards across the team.

You’ll act as a player-coach, balancing deep technical contribution with team leadership. You’ll help turn complexity into clarity, empower engineers to take ownership, manage delivery risk carefully, and guide the team to make high-quality technical decisions with appropriate autonomy.

What you offer

  • Extensive hands-on software engineering experience, with deep Java/JVM expertise and a strong track record delivering complex, business-critical platforms
  • Strong current coding capability in Java and JavaScript, including experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security
  • Experience designing distributed systems, microservices architectures, scalable backend platforms, and API-led integrations
  • Practical experience with cloud-native engineering, preferably AWS, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and operational resilience
  • Experience with data and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MSSQL, Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, and RESTful APIs
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams, creating a culture of trust, clarity, accountability, and ownership
  • Strong architectural judgement, with the ability to make high-quality technical decisions, manage delivery risk, and bring structure to ambiguous environments
  • Experience with AI-assisted development, automation, or agentic AI integration, including tools such as GitHub Copilot, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning technical direction to strategic priorities, commercial outcomes, and production stability
  • Experience in financial markets, post-trade processing, OTC derivatives, or agentic AI systems would be highly regarded.


What you offer

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.

About Macquarie Group

Global provider of asset management, banking, and financial services.

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