Senior Software Engineer

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll 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 that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

You'll work alongside 5-6 experienced engineers who are passionate about modernising legacy systems with clean, maintainable code. Our dedicated UX Design team ensures every feature you build creates an exceptional user experience, while our QA engineer guarantees your work reaches customers bug-free. The head of product brings deep domain knowledge to guide feature development, ensuring your technical skills solve real-world problems that matter.

You'll master cutting-edge technologies like micro frontends and cloud-native architecture. The platform modernisation work you'll lead today becomes the foundation for tomorrow's innovations in financial technology.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. 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 you're always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to 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, that’s why we’ve 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 you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

We're seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our Platforms squad. You'll drive new project development, transform existing platform architecture, and modernise applications that serve our global customer base.

Your primary focus will be developing micro frontend applications with React and building cloud-native backend microservices using C#.NET. You'll design and maintain enterprise web applications that handle significant scale while ensuring top-tier performance and security.

Key technical responsibilities include:

• Building modern React applications that deliver intuitive, responsive user experiences
• Developing robust C#.NET/ APIs and microservices that power our trading platform
• Optimising database performance with Entity Framework and SQL Server, writing efficient T-SQL queries
• Architecting cloud solutions on AWS using best practices for reliability and scalability
• Implementing comprehensive testing strategies from unit tests through end-to-end automation
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for seamless deployments
• Collaborating in an Agile environment with sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

What will help you be successful?

You're an experienced full-stack developer with 7+ years in .NET/C# and 5+ years with React/TypeScript. You have solid experience with ASP.NET, Web APIs, and MSSQL, plus you're either AWS certified or have deep practical knowledge of AWS services. Beyond technical skills, you thrive in collaborative environments where you can contribute to complex technical discussions.

You must have full working rights in Australia.

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 don’t 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

Click on the link to find out more about the things we live by at CMC Markets CMC Markets - Culture Video  

We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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