Front End Engineer

Stake is looking for a Front End Engineer to join our team at our Sydney CBD HQ, with a flexible working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH).

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 750,000+ 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

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, curious problem solver who enjoys building high-quality products at scale. You thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams and care deeply about crafting intuitive, polished user experiences. You’re happy getting into the details, while also thinking about performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
You bring:

• Solid experience as a software engineer with a frontend focus, building production web applications used by thousands of users
• Strong skills in TypeScript and Angular, with working knowledge of RxJS and state management
• Experience building responsive, accessible UIs using HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and modern JavaScript
• A strong interest in UX and UI principles, including performance, animations, micro-interactions, and Core Web Vitals
• Practical experience applying accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG 2.0) and tools like Lighthouse
• Experience working with or contributing to design systems (component libraries, Storybook, Figma)
• Familiarity with frontend testing approaches across unit, integration, and E2E testing
• Comfort working in Ionic framework and contributing to Go backend services when needed
• Experience working in agile teams with designers, product managers, and other engineers
• An interest in finance or financial markets, with a willingness to keep learning
• Strong communication skills and a proactive, growth-oriented mindset
  

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:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations

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 either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. 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.