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**Senior Software Engineer - Golang** As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang, you'll contribute to the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from architecture to operations, focusing on product quality and developer experience. You'll enhance Macquarie's internal developer platform, expanding features and integrations, and improving reliability and performance at scale. **Responsibilities:** - Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade systems optimized for reliability and performance. - Collaborate with platform, cloud, and security teams to drive standards and APIs. - Provide production support for a product used daily by engineers globally. - Operate in a lean, high-impact environment with broad ownership. **Required Skills & Experience:** - 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 2 years using Golang to build production systems. - Strong grasp of Go fundamentals, including concurrency, error handling, and testing. - Proven experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and integrating platform services. - Cloud experience with AWS, familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling, and microservices understanding. - Ability to work with high autonomy and end-to-end ownership in a lean, product-minded team. **Benefits:** Enjoy a range of benefits, including wellbeing leave, salary packaging options, and hybrid/flexible working arrangements. Macquarie is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

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City: Sydney
Country: Australia

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Job ID

19336

Date

09-Mar-2026

Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior

Job category

Technology - Engineering

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Join our Technology team supporting the Commodities and Global Markets business, a dynamic, collaborative group evolving a broad suite of Trading, Risk, Transaction, and Data platforms. Help us build the internal platform behind how Macquarie engineers work, delivering production grade systems optimised for reliability and performance.

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. Youll 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 product centric Senior Software Engineer (Golang), you will contribute across the full SDLC including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations, with a relentless focus on product quality and developer experience. Your work will centre on Macquaries internal developer platform: enhancing reproducible, containerised developer environments (including VS Code setup), expanding feature addons, deepening integrations across the end-to-end Macquarie SDLC, and improving reliability, performance, and developer experience at scale. Youll collaborate with platform, cloud, and security teams to help drive standards and APIs, provide production support for a product used daily by engineers globally, and operate in a lean, high impact environment with broad ownership, taking features from concept to production.

What you offer

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5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 2+ years with Golang building production systems
Strong grasp of Go fundamentals: concurrency (goroutines, channels), interfaces, error handling, testing
Proven engineering best practices (CI/CD, code reviews, pair programming) and a bias for automation and simplicity
Experience with Linux, Docker, and operating containerised workloads (Kubernetes experience valued)
Proficiency with SDLC tooling (e.g., Git, pipelines, work tracking) and integrating platform services (secrets, observability, artifacts)
Cloud experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider)
Familiarity with AI assisted developer tooling (e.g., Claude) and interest in applying it to improve developer experience
Ability to review, refactor, and elevate code quality and architecture; strong attention to detail in developer facing products
Comfortable working with high autonomy and end-to-end ownership in a lean, product minded team
Some experience with microservices, distributed systems, and modern API design
Understanding of network fundamentals, cross platform developer environments, Windows & WSL2 and relational databases
Frontend awareness would helpful, with an understanding of modern web fundamentals; our UI components currently use JavaScript/Vue, but any modern frontend background is welcome

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, youre empowered to shape a career thats 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 Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. Were a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrows technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, 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. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.

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Senior Software Engineer - Golang

Additional office locations

Sydney

Job ID

19336

Date

09-Mar-2026

Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior

Job category

Technology - Engineering

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