Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Macquarie Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Parental leave

Fertility leave

Volunteer leave

Salary sacrifice

Insurance cover

Employee Assistance

Learning & development

Dependent care

Recognition awards

Hybrid work

Home office reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Group in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Engineering. You will combine hands-on coding with system design to evolve our cloud-native analytics and rapid delivery platform, collaborating with quantitative teams to enable safe, rapid production technology.

You will turn complex tech into reusable services and APIs, push for scalable, resilient architectures, and embed AI-driven capabilities to boost developer productivity and unlock new insights.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building production software with Python/Java/Scala.
• Experience in distributed systems with emphasis on scalability and resilience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and container tech (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Linux networking, and build tooling (Bazel).
• Exposure to analytics/workflow tech like Airflow/Dask/JupyterHub is helpful.
• Interest in applying AI to software engineering and familiarity with LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve cloud-native analytics and delivery platform at scale.
• Create reusable services and APIs for cross-team use.
• Collaborate with quantitative teams to deliver production tech safely.
• Improve performance, resilience and developer experience.
• Embed AI-driven capabilities to unlock new insights.

Skills

Python/Java/Scala

Distributed systems

AWS & Kubernetes

CI/CD & Bazel

Analytics tools

AI-assisted development

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bazel

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Across Commodities and Global Markets, technology sits close to the decisions that matter.

Financial markets move around the clock, and the technology that supports them needs to move with them. Our quantitative teams and front‑office engineers build applications and solutions that support trading, help manage risk, enable research, automate complex workflows and create new opportunities for the business.

Speed matters, but so do resilience, reliability and the ability to scale.

At the heart of this is our cloud‑native analytics and rapid delivery platform. What began as a specialist capability for quantitative teams has grown into a widely used engineering platform.The platform provides the foundations for teams to build and run production applications, deliver analytics, orchestrate complex workflows and connect securely with core trading and data systems.

It is the technology people build on every day, and as adoption, workloads and use cases continue to grow, the engineering challenges grow with them.

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 Senior Software Engineer, you’ll combine hands‑on coding with thoughtful system design to build and evolve our cloud‑native analytics and rapid delivery platform, using open‑source technologies and cloud‑native services. Working alongside engineers and quantitative teams, you’ll enable the safe, rapid delivery of production technology that supports our Commodities and Global Markets business.

You’ll tackle the challenges of a growing, multi‑tenant platform at scale: evolving execution environments, accelerating code‑to‑production delivery, orchestrating complex workflows and integrating with trading and data systems. Across this work, you’ll improve performance, resilience and developer experience.

A core part of your role will be turning complex technology into reusable services, APIs and capabilities that other teams can build on. You’ll think beyond individual applications, designing engineering foundations that support different teams, workloads and use cases across the business.

You’ll also help shape the platform through its next stage of growth, strengthening its architecture and engineering foundations while embedding AI‑driven capabilities that boost developer productivity and unlock new insights.

What you offer

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• Software engineering experience in Python, Java or Scala, designing, building and supporting reliable, production‑grade software.
• Experience with distributed systems, shared platforms or data‑intensive applications, with an understanding of scalability, resilience, performance and maintainable software design.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, with exposure to container technologies such as Kubernetes and infrastructure‑as‑code tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• A grounding in modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD and Git‑based workflows, alongside familiarity with Linux and networking. Experience with build tooling such as Bazel would be beneficial.
• Exposure to analytics, workflow or distributed‑compute technologies, such as Apache Airflow, Dask, JupyterHub or comparable tools, would be helpful.
• An interest in applying AI to software engineering, with experience of AI‑assisted development tools, LLMs or agentic workflows.

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 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

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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.

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 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 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.