Senior Software Engineer

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 Senior Software 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 Senior Software Engineer you will plan, design, and deliver scalable software for Stake to provide an exceptional product experience. Build highly available systems and contribute to architectural solutions. Work in a dynamic environment, implement technologies, and manage software products in a fast-growing business

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

• You lead the design and architecture of complex technical projects, ensuring alignment with system-wide goals and standards;
• You set the standard for high-quality, maintainable, and testable code;
• You're able to deeply own the systems you build, thriving in an on-call environment and being the subject matter expert and point of escalation for high priority issues;
• You're able to provide reliable development effort estimates and ensure timely delivery of high-complexity solutions, balancing technical excellence with business needs;

You'll thrive here if...

• You keep it simple, there is a place for complexity and exotic technologies but they have to be justified, simple solutions are the default
• You're a pragmatist, you "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", you pick the right tool for the job and make sensible trade-offs when needed
• You raise the engineering bar, you advocate for best practices, champion code quality in PR reviews and actively contribute to raising the standards of the wider engineering team
• You build up those around you, you are generous with your knowledge, you work collaboratively with your peers and mentor junior engineers

Bonus if you've ever

• Worked with Golang, distributed systems or event-driven architectures
• Built systems using Kubernetes, Docker or cloud-native technologies
• Worked with technologies such as CockroachDB, Redis, gRPC, Pub/Sub or similar platforms
• Supported high-availability systems operating at scale
• 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.