Software Engineer - 18 months maximum contract role

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.

This role gives you the chance to build technology that genuinely opens financial markets to more people. Every feature you deliver and every problem you solve helps traders and investors access global markets with confidence. Your work has real impact, every day.

You’ll deepen your expertise across modern .NET, cloud-based systems, and high-performance trading platforms. Working with both on-prem and AWS environments, you’ll strengthen your engineering craft while learning how large-scale, mission-critical systems operate in real time. This is a role where your technical judgement grows quickly, supported by experienced peers who value clean, reliable code.

You’ll also have space to take ownership. From design through to production, you’ll see your

You’ll work in a stable, established organisation that continues to grow, invest in technology, and back its people for the long term.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll 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 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

In this role, you’ll design, build, and support systems that sit at the heart of CMC Markets’ trading platforms. Your work will focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Able to support the business operation team to track and resolve order and trading related issues

• Work on the code base for both on-premises and AWS cloud, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability

• Able to work independently to resolve technical issues, communicate with vendors and banks for system integration

• Understand how to write unit tests, integration tests, and API tests that has a wide code and function test coverage

• Adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements

What will help you be successful?

You enjoy solving complex problems and taking responsibility for seeing work through to production. You’re comfortable working independently, but you also value teamwork and clear communication.

You’ll bring:

• Strong experience with .NET, C#, SQL Server, and T-SQL (3+ years)

• Solid knowledge of unit and integration testing and Entity Framework

• Confidence working with databases, performance tuning, and stored procedures

• A proactive mindset and pride in delivering reliable, high-quality solutions

• Experience with AWS, cloud infrastructure, JavaScript frameworks, bank integrations, or agile environments will be highly valued.

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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