Lead Front End Engineer

Stake is looking for a Lead 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

You will plan, design and deliver a scalable web application enabling Stake to scale. Our developers take ownership, work collaboratively and challenge each other to build best-in-class trading solutions. You will build highly available and maintainable systems and have your say in how to architect solutions to solve customer problems. In particular you will:

• Lead, mentor, and develop our web frontend engineering team, building a cross functional impact-focused team.
• Set the architectural direction, foundations and styling of our web platform - which is built in Angular 14+ using modern state management technology.
• Ensure the platform is performant, scalable and optimised to service our 700,000+ users.
• Work closely alongside Product Designers, Product Managers and Backend Engineering to deliver beautiful experiences
• Build systems, teach skills, and foster attitudes across engineering teams that help engineers succeed, increase our product’s quality, and put a smile on our customers’ faces.
• Live and breathe a customer first mindset. Create a culture and ways of working that put our customers’ voices at the heart of decision-making.

A bit about you

• 8+ years experience working on frontend technologies
• Working inside financial technology is preferred (but not a must have)
• You know how to ship great web products and you’ve done it before.
• You’ve already led and scaled engineering teams.
• You’re a proven advocate for web development in fast-moving, fast-growing product organisations.
• You’re a strong collaborator, comfortable working with cross-functional teams to drive user engagement and business growth.
• B2C experience is essential, with a great understanding of consumer-facing digital products.
• Translate requirements between product designers, product managers, backend engineers

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.