Stake is looking for a Software engineer to join our team at our HQ in Bondi Junction or work from home, 100% remote from anywhere in Australia.

We’re an Australian investing platform on a mission to help ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company with even bigger plans. Today we have 700,000+ global 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

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. In particular you will:

• Contribute to the design and architecture of complex technical projects, ensuring alignment with system-wide goals and standards;
• Contribute high-quality, maintainable, and testable code;
• Deeply own the systems you build, thriving in an on-call environment and being the point of escalation for high priority issues;
• Provide development effort estimates and work to ensure timely delivery of high-complexity solutions, balancing technical excellence with business needs;

Our Tech stack:

• Golang, CockroachDB, Pub/Sub, gRPC, Redis
• GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog

Don’t worry if you don’t have experience with Golang or some of our other technologies. If you’re a capable engineer with proven ability using other stacks and are happy to learn ours, then we want to hear from you!

A bit about you

• 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

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.

• 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
• Employee Share Options scheme