Stake
Website:
getstake.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hello-stake
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Financial Services
Job details:
About Stake
We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.
About the role
We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join our Technology team in Sydney.
Technology sits at the heart of everything we build at Stake. Our engineers are responsible for creating the products, services and infrastructure that power the investing experience for hundreds of thousands of customers. From trading and portfolio management to account operations and new product launches, engineering plays a critical role in shaping how customers interact with Stake every day.
As a Front End Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design, development and operation of systems that are reliable, scalable and built for long-term growth. You'll work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teammates to solve meaningful customer problems, deliver high-quality software and continuously improve the systems that underpin our platform.
This is a role with significant ownership and opportunity for growth. You'll help shape technical decisions, contribute to architectural discussions and take responsibility for the systems you build from development through to production. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.
What success looks like
- Delivered high-quality, performant front-end features that materially improve the experience of customers and contribute to key business outcomes
- Built and maintained accessible, responsive UIs and front-end services that support Stake’s continued growth and evolving product offering
- Become a trusted owner of key front-end systems and design system components, confidently supporting them in production
- Contributed to front-end architectural decisions that improve performance, maintainability and developer experience across the platform
- Consistently delivered high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code while balancing UX polish with technical excellence
- Helped improve engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Built strong partnerships across Product, Design and Engineering to craft intuitive, polished customer experiences
- Contributed to a culture of continuous improvement, helping make Stake a stronger engineering organisation over time
You’ll thrive here if…
- You have experience building and operating customer-facing front-end applications in modern engineering environments, such as Typescript, Ionic and Angular
- You care deeply about crafting intuitive, polished user experiences and understand that the best solutions are the ones that are easiest to operate, maintain and evolve
- You’re pragmatic and can make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality and long-term sustainability
- You take ownership of outcomes and enjoy getting into the details of performance, accessibility and maintainability
- You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, sharing knowledge and helping raise the standard of the team around you
- You’re curious, adaptable and excited to learn new technologies and approaches when they create better outcomes
Bonus if you’ve ever
- Worked with Angular, RxJS or modern component and design system tooling, such as Storybook or Figma
- Built or contributed to mobile apps using Ionic or similar cross-platform frameworks
- Applied accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG 2.0) and tools like Lighthouse to ship inclusive, high-performing UIs
- Contributed to backend services (e.g. Go) to help unblock end-to-end delivery
- Worked in fintech, investing, financial services or another highly regulated environment
Benefits of working at Stake
You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks. Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program.
- Professional development allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Childcare allowance
- Wellbeing support
- Annual leave swap days
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
So what happens next?
Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and if we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.
To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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