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**Staff Engineer | Customer Identity, Access & API Management Platform** - Define & drive technical strategy for domain - Solve complex cross-team challenges, elevate overall engineering capability - Leverage Java/Spring skills, ensure software quality, and boost team's technical expertise

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City: Sydney
Country: Australia

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Staff Engineer | Customer Identity, Access and API Management Platform

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Sydney

Job ID

22926

Date

23-Sep-2026

Permanent - Full time, Senior

Job category

BFS - Cloud Engineer

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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, youre 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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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 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 thats 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.

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Staff Engineer | Customer Identity, Access and API Management Platform

Additional office locations

Sydney

Job ID

22926

Date

23-Sep-2026

Permanent - Full time, Senior

Job category

BFS - Cloud Engineer

Apply now