Job Description

Join our Technology Engineering team and play a key role in building, evolving and operating high performance automated trading systems that support our intraday power trading business across global energy markets, with an emphasis on European markets.

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. 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?

Working directly with front office traders, quantitative analysts and application engineering teams, you will design, develop and operate front to back automated trading platforms for intraday power markets. You will be responsible for building reliable, low latency trading systems covering the full lifecycle - from real time market data ingestion and analytics through automated execution and monitoring. In addition to hands on software development, you will contribute to the delivery of key technology initiatives, platform enhancements and architectural improvements.

You will operate in a 24/7 trading environment, taking ownership of system reliability and resilience, applying strong engineering and SRE practices, and partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure trading strategies can be safely and efficiently deployed to production.

What You Offer

2+ years of experience as a Trading Software Engineer building high performance, low latency systems using C++, C#, Java and/or Python
Strong frontend development skills using JavaScript / TypeScript, with experience in Angular, React or Streamlit for trading dashboards and UIs
Experience designing and operating high availability (24/7) automated trading systems, with a focus on reliability, resilience and performance
Solid understanding of energy and power markets, ideally with exposure to European power exchanges (EPEX, Nord Pool, ICE, EEX), and data providers like Meteologica , MetDesk or EnAppSys
Experience working closely with traders and quants to implement and operationalise trading models, forecasting and weather driven analytics
Strong knowledge of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), monitoring and cloud native development
Ownership mindset with strong communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast paced, time critical trading environments, including participation in a 24/7 on call rotation.

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

Benefits

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 and 5 additional paid Flexi-Leave days per year
20 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
2 days of paid volunteer leave per annum and donation matching
Option to purchase additional annual leave
Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, psychological and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover and additional flexible wellbeing credits
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

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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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, 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.

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.