What role will you play?
As an experienced Software Engineer, you will play a key role in driving strategic change in building our new strata operational platform. You will leverage your passion for engineering and technology to solve problems holistically across a dynamic business environment. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our teams of business representatives and engineers, charting a path through short-term deliveries towards aspirational end-state solutions. Your growth mindset and ability to contribute to innovative projects will be highly valued.What you offer
- Experience across the board with a strong depth of knowledge in building PHP based applications for the cloud
- Good understanding of how to build performant, resilient, decoupled software systems with high standards on code maintainability
- Experience using Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini CLI, etc.)
- Passion for collaborating and experience in leading and mentoring junior team members
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers.
- Ability to write code and leading design decisions by engaging in POCs and high performant, critical code components
- Good understanding on service-oriented and micro-services architecture
- Knowledge of open-source libraries, tools and frameworks
- A structured approach to problem solving and an ability to critically assess a range of data points to identify the true root cause of issues and to design viable solutions
- Applied understanding of tech obsolescence, regulatory compliance and privacy requirements
- Advanced knowledge of database optimisation techniques, indexing, and query performance tuning for MySQL relational databases.
- Proven AWS experience (e.g., S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito) is highly desired, with familiarity in cloud-native application development.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace) to ensure application reliability and uptime.
- Good understanding of Cybersecurity principles (e.g. OWASP10), security standards and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001), and secure coding practices. Secure Code Warrior experience is a bonus.
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.
About Banking and Financial Services
Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.Inclusion at Macquarie
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