Senior Software Engineer 18 Month Maximum Term Contract

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential then youll love contributing to CMC Markets company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company thats growing with you by global expansion and product offering.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Market Data squad youll work on systems that process millions of data points daily powering trading decisions for clients across the globe. This is backend engineering where performance matters where milliseconds count and where your code directly impacts real-time trading experiences. Youll tackle fascinating technical challenges around scalability concurrency and data processing whilst working with modern cloud technologies

Working in a focused squad of three engineers reporting to our Market Data Technical Lead youll gain deep expertise in high-performance financial systems cloud-native architecture on AWS and building software that operates at scale.

Why Youll like working here

Just some of the reasons youll love working here include:

• Leave benefits:Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades:Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning:Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training ensuring youre always learning new skills.

• Unlimited accessto a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration:We believe that great things happen when smart people work together thats why weve made the decision to work five days in the office.

• Office perks:Help yourself to free breakfast cereals condiments and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether youre into fitness pizza making classes socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What youll be working on

• As part of our wider Software Engineering team under the MarketData squad youll be working closely with various other teams including Business Analysts Technical Leads Product Owners and Database Administrators.
• Support the Business Operations team to resolve Marketdata related issues.
• Design and build software solutions for both on-premises and AWS cloud ensuring scalability reliability and maintainability.
• Multi-threaded programming will be central to your work as you optimise for performance and concurrency. Youll craft complex SQL queries and design database schemas that can handle high-volume low-latency data processing.
• Work independently to resolve technical issues communicate with vendors and banks for system integrations.
• Conduct technical talks workshops and code reviews to improve the skillsets of the team.
• Youll champion testing practices writing comprehensive unit tests integration tests and API tests that has a wide code and function test coverage.
• Support business operations after-hour during allocated On-Call period.

What will help you be successful

Youre an experienced full-stack engineer whos confident working Core 8 C# JavaScript/TypeScript and SQL. You enjoy building cloud-native solutions on AWS (ECS Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch) and developing high-performance multi-threaded applications.

You take ownership of production systems getting to the root of issues and putting the right monitoring in place to prevent them from happening again. You care about writing clean efficient code using Entity Framework solid unit and integration tests and optimised databases with smart use of stored procedures and indexing. Youre comfortable working with microservices and Git and you bring a thoughtful practical approach to designing solutions that balance cost performance and maintainability.

You must hold full working rights in Australia to be eligible for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel confident to be themselves feel valued and are able to do their best work. We dont just value differences and unique perspectives we seek them out and we invite them in because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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Were always on the lookout for great people so even if you dont feel you are a 100% fit apply with your up-to-date CV and well consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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