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Join the Banking and Financial Services Payment Platform Technology team as a Principal Engineer and play a pivotal role in evolving our strategic payment capabilities. 

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 34 markets and with 55 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?

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As a Principal Engineer, you will lead and mentor multiple engineering teams, guiding them through application design and architecture and contribute to business requirements, ensuring that technical solutions align with business goals. You will design and build integrations between multiple microservices using your hands-on experience with microservice frameworks.

You will collaborate in an agile environment, create user stories and acceptance criteria while identifying potential risks while focusing on delivering value, and keeping business objectives at the forefront of development efforts. You will apply DevOps principles, leading the team toward automation, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and supporting incident management and design, develop, and implement APIs, ensuring they meet high standards of reliability and performance.

What you offer

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• Proven experience in a leadership capacity
• Solid background in Java with a strong understanding of software development best practices
• Proven track record of leading microservice integration, focusing on reliability and quality within complex ecosystems
• Proficiency in developing microservices using Spring Boot, along with skills in containerisation, cloud technologies, and service orchestration
• Hands-on expertise in event-based and message-oriented distributed systems (e.g., Solace, Pub/Sub)
• Extensive background with automated API and integration testing, including knowledge of relevant tools
• Exposure to payments or cards products and/or API-based financial services platforms is a plus.

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 Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of our business, for our people, our customers and our communities. Bring your unique perspective and join a global team who is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Benefits

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Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include: 

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements 
• One wellbeing leave day per year and up to five additional days leave based on length of service
• Up to 20 weeks paid parental leave as well as benefits to support you as you transition to life as a working parent 
• Paid volunteer leave and donation matching 
• Range of benefits to support your physical, psychological and financial wellbeing 
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for a role regardless of their identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, marital or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disabilities, or socio-economic background.

If you require adjustments to your working arrangements or the recruitment process, please let us know when applying.