Front End Engineer at Stake

Stake is looking for a Front End Engineer to join our team at our HQ in Bondi Junction or work from home, 100% remote from anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 700,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

About this role

In this role, you will be working to create exceptional user experiences that transform the way our customers invest. We're seeking an engineer who is passionate about design, understands UX/UI Principles and who wants to build truly intuitive products. You'll have the freedom to design, architect and implement technical solutions to Stake user problems.

A bit about you

Financial markets are complex so we’re looking for a hands-on and creative problem solver. You must love working in a team and collaborating with other engineers on various projects. You also have:

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Worked on an app or website that has thousands of users
• You have an interest in finance or the markets. Can be a curious interest or a lifelong passion.
• You’re comfortable working in Ionic (ideally 7+) or Angular (ideally 14+)
• Excellent communication skills.
• Quick-learning skills with an ambitious and results-driven personality.
• A deep interest in crafting awesome experiences - be it faster page loads, animations or micro-interactions.

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

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. They include:

• Professional development allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Extra paid leave during tough times
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves, and you'll hear from us regardless of the outcome. If we think you’d be a great fit for our team, we’ll give you a call and take it from there.

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.