Principal Engineer - Java - Trade Validation

About the Role

Join our Market Services Trade Validation team and contribute to the transformation of our post-trade platform. We are building a digital-first post-trade lifecycle by collaborating with business stakeholders and leveraging modern cloud-based and AI-powered technologies. Our goal is to minimize manual processes, enable controls closer to trade execution, and validate data at its origin.

We are a global financial services firm operating across 30 markets with over five decades of continuous profitability. At Macquarie, you have the opportunity to develop a fulfilling career that drives value and meaningful impact.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on engineering leadership to influence the architecture, technical direction, and delivery of a large-scale financial platform while regularly contributing code.
• Review code submissions, design microservices architectures, mentor team members, enhance code quality, and promote standard engineering practices.
• Balance technical contributions with leadership duties, simplify complex problems, empower engineers towards ownership, manage delivery risks, and steer the team towards high-quality decision-making with autonomy.

Qualifications and Experience

• Possess extensive practical software engineering experience with significant expertise in Java/JVM and a proven history of delivering complex, critical business platforms.
• Demonstrate advanced coding skills in Java (version 17 or higher) and JavaScript, including experience with Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security frameworks.
• Skilled in designing distributed systems, scalable microservice architectures, backend platforms, and API-driven integrations.
• Experienced in cloud-native development, preferably using AWS, with proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and building resilient systems.
• Familiarity with data and messaging tools such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MSSQL, Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, and REST APIs.
• Proven leadership capabilities in mentoring, team development, and fostering a culture of trust, clarity, ownership, and accountability.
• Strong architectural judgement capable of making sound technical decisions, managing risk, and clarifying ambiguous challenges.
• Experience with AI-assisted programming or agentic AI tool integration, including platforms like GitHub Copilot or AWS Bedrock.
• Effective stakeholder management skills to align technical strategies with business priorities, commercial goals, and operational stability.
• Background in financial markets, post-trade processing, OTC derivatives, or agentic AI systems is highly preferred.

Employee Benefits

• One day per year dedicated to wellbeing leave.
• Up to five extra annual service bonus leave days.
• Generous parental leave policies: Up to 20 weeks paid leave for primary caregivers, 12 days transition leave upon return, and six weeks paid leave for non-primary caregivers.
• Two paid volunteer leave days and matching donations.
• Up to 12 months of gender affirmation leave, including six weeks paid.
• Access to employee assistance programs and various health and wellbeing benefits, including medical screenings and vaccinations.
• Various salary packaging opportunities.
• Extensive learning and development support including reimbursement for professional memberships or subscriptions.
• Flexible and hybrid working options based on role requirements.
• Reimbursements for home office equipment.

Additional Information

Our technology team plays an essential role in enabling the organization by accelerating digital innovation, connecting people and data, and designing future-ready technological solutions.

We maintain a strong commitment to inclusivity by valuing diverse experiences, skills, and perspectives. Equal opportunity is provided without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable accommodations are available to support individuals during recruitment and employment processes; applicants are encouraged to disclose any needs for adjustments when applying.