Staff Engineer | Customer Identity, Access and API Management Platform

Macquarie Bank Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day per year

Parental leave (up to 20 weeks)

Volunteer leave and matching

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Learning & development support

Hybrid and flexible working

Job summary

Macquarie Bank Limited is seeking a Staff Engineer for Customer Identity, Access and API Management. You will design, implement and own critical services, solving cross-team challenges while mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy.

You will work hands-on, contribute to architecture, drive reliability and security, and collaborate with stakeholders to align technical direction with business goals, in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, building and maintaining microservices with Java/Spring.
• Excellent architectural judgement and ability to manage delivery risk.
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and driving technical growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain team-owned products.
• Lead and mentor engineers, providing technical direction across the platform.

Skills

Java/Spring

Architectural judgement

Microservices

Observability

Security standards

Incident response

AI-assisted development

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder management

Production stability

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Job description

Staff Engineer | Customer Identity, Access and API Management Platform

Join our leading Banking and Financial Services (BFS) team as a staff engineer, where digital banking and software engineering are at the absolute core of what we do. In this pivotal role, you will act as a deep technical expert who drives the technical vision and strategy for your specific domain. You will be critical in solving complex, cross-team technical challenges and significantly elevating our overall engineering capability. Operating within an autonomous environment where you are empowered to “do it right”, you will leverage your extensive technical knowledge and pragmatic approach to software design and architecture to delight our clients through our world-class technology platforms, while continuously learning and becoming a master of your craft.

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?

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As a strong staff engineer you will help tackle some of the most challenging problems in the bank. You will be responsible for helping in design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of the products owned by your team. In addition to technology ownership, you will play a key role in hiring and fostering the technical growth of the engineers. Drawing on deep and broad technical expertise, you will be hands-on in the code, solving technical problems, mentoring engineers and providing leadership on complex technology issues across the platform, while also spending your time building outstanding software by both directly coding and offering close technical direction to your teams.

What you offer

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• Strong experience in designing, building and maintaining microservices using Java/Spring with a focus on scalability, observability and operational resilience.
• Strong architectural judgement, with the ability to make high-quality technical decisions, manage delivery risk and bring structure to ambiguous environments.
• Deep expertise in analysing, simplifying and optimizing complex processes and adept at researching and implementing new and emerging technologies
• Track record for maintaining and improving code quality, rigorous testing practices and robust engineering and security standards
• Expertise in application reliability, uptime management and continuous improvement through incident response and post-mortem analysis.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, automation, or agentic AI integration, including tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or equivalent
• Proven ability in mentoring and develop engineers, creating a culture of trust, clarity, accountability, high performance and ownership.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience aligning technical direction to strategic priorities, commercial outcomes and production stability

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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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 Banking and Financial Services

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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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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.