Senior Front End Engineer

Stake is looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to join our team at our Bondi Junction HQ, with a flexible working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH), or work 100% remotely from anywhere in Australia.

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. 

Build and shape the future of investing experiences by delivering high-performance, visually stunning front-end experiences that empower people to invest with confidence. This is a fast-paced role where you’ll be trusted to make an impact from day one - you’ll own key parts of the product experience, from core trading flows to new growth features, directly shaping how customers interact with Stake. 

You’ll have the freedom to choose how best to solve problems, implement your ideas and take technical ownership of what you build. You’ll work closely with product, design and backend teams to create intuitive, scalable and engaging interactions across web and mobile platforms.

In particular you will:

• Own and drive the technical implementation of sophisticated user interfaces in Angular and Ionic.
  
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers and product managers to refine user stories and translate them into technical execution.
  
• Set the standard for high-quality, maintainable, testable front-end code and performance.
  
• Bring ideas to life through animation, transitions and micro-interactions that elevate the user experience.
  
• Play a key role in shaping our front-end architecture and shared component systems, autonomy to influence both technical direction and broader product outcomes.
  
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve user experience across devices.

• Angular 14+, Ionic 7 (Capacitor for hybrid mobile)
• RESTful APIs
• Design system with Figma integration

• You’re experienced in Angular - you’ve built scalable front-end applications with Angular (ideally Angular 14+), or you’re an expert front-end engineer who can quickly master the framework.
  
• You obsess over performance and UX - you understand the nuances of performance, accessibility and responsive design.
  
• You keep things simple and scalable - you write clean, maintainable code and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality and long-term growth.
  
• You thrive in cross-functional teams - you collaborate closely with engineers, designers and product managers to deliver exceptional results.
  
• You raise the bar for front-end quality - you advocate for best practices, push for code quality, and help others grow through mentorship.
  
• You lead with clarity and openness - you bring clear technical direction while staying adaptable and receptive to feedback.
  
• You understand the mobile experience - you’re familiar with building responsive, performant apps that run seamlessly across web and/or hybrid platforms.
  
• You’re motivated by impact - whether you’re deeply into finance or just curious, you’re excited by how technology can make investing more accessible to everyone.

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!

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
• Employee Share Options scheme

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.

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.