At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead AI innovation by designing and building scalable backend systems for our AI-native solutions.
- Company: Join Macquarie, a global leader in financial services with a commitment to AI-driven excellence.
- Benefits: Enjoy wellbeing leave, flexible work options, and extensive learning opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of an inclusive team that values diverse perspectives and supports your career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in shaping the future of banking with cutting-edge AI technology.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in software engineering, strong coding skills, and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
Join our mission to build the most intelligent, customer-centric bank in Australia! Driven by our AI first strategy, we're creating AI-native solutions and an AI-empowered workforce to deliver best-in-class experiences for over 2 million Australians. You will join our talented enterprise AI enablement team to build leading-edge solutions on our agentic AI ecosystem.
As a senior software engineer in the enterprise AI enablement team, you will be at the forefront of designing and building the robust, scalable backend systems that power our AI-native solutions. With a primary focus on software engineering excellence, you will spend the majority of your time writing production-grade code and automating complex workflows to create a resilient foundation for our agentic AI ecosystem. You'll take end-to-end ownership of your products in a modern DevOps culture, responsible for architecture, design, development, testing, and operations. Working in a multi-disciplinary team alongside our data scientists, you will apply your engineering expertise to implement "LLMOps" best practices and streamline the deployment and monitoring of cutting-edge AI models.
What You Offer
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer in an agile DevOps environment using an object-oriented development language (python preferred)
- Experience across the full SDLC including design, build, test, and supporting mission-critical production platforms
- Strong proficiency in writing robust, production-grade code to build scalable backend solutions and automate complex workflows
- Demonstrated proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and managing deployments in a containerised cloud environment (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Exposure to modern agentic AI concepts and frameworks: RAG, MCP, GCP vertex AI, google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex
- Knowledge of "LLMOps" best practices for streamlining model experimentation, deployment, and monitoring in a live environment.
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
- 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
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 that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.
Inclusion at Macquarie
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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