Senior Software Engineer, Cloud and Analytics Platform - Macquarie Group

eFinancialCareers
London, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
1 Jun 2026 (3 days ago)

Benefits

1 wellbeing leave day per year 25 days of annual leave 26 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers Paid fertility leave 2 days of paid volunteer leave Donation matching Comprehensive medical and life insurance cover Employee Assistance Program Reimbursement for professional membership or subscription Company funded emergency and backup dependent care services Recognition and service awards Reimbursement for work from home equipment

Join our development team and play a key role in our expanding Engineering Services function. You'll help enhance our innovative analytics and rapid delivery platform as we digitise and modernise the Commodities and Global Markets platforms and applications. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies, you'll enable the business to scale and seize new opportunities with agility.

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?

You'll combine hands-on coding with thoughtful system design and a culture of continuous improvement to deliver resilient, highly scalable technology that keeps our Commodities and Global Markets business ahead of the curve. Leveraging best-in-class open-source frameworks and cloud-native services, you'll design, build and run the distributed-compute and data-science platform that powers Macquarie's trading and analytics workflows. Working side-by-side with quantitative analysts and trading desks worldwide, you'll transform research concepts into production-ready solutions-automating infrastructure with Python, Java or Scala and embedding AI-driven capabilities that boost developer productivity and unlock new insights.

What you offer

  • Hands-on experience with public-cloud platforms-ideally AWS-plus Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm or similar)
  • A proven track record of designing, building and running production-grade distributed-compute or data-science platforms
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to partner directly with quantitative analysts, traders and other stakeholders
  • A self-motivated, inquisitive mindset and a methodical, agile approach to problem-solving
  • Expertise in AI-driven development (e.g. prompt engineering, Claude, Agentic-AI frameworks, LLM, MCP tools)
  • Solid Linux administration and networking skills, plus Git-based workflows
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow, Dask and JupyterHub
  • Experience with modern build systems (especially Bazel) and CI/CD pipelines.
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 eligibility criteria, include:
  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
  • 26 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
  • Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
  • Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services
  • Recognition and service awards
  • 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 providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, 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.
Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.

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