Tech Lead - Payments

Stake is looking for an Tech Lead - Payments to join us at our brand new Sydney CBD location within a hybrid working model!

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+ 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.

A pivotal leadership role within Stake that runs our core operations of the Trading platform, this role leads the team responsible for the systems that power funding and money movement—including bank connections/integrations, deposits and withdrawals, and the operational foundations that keep these flows secure, correct, and highly available. You’ll be accountable for both delivery and day-two excellence: predictable execution, clear ownership, incident leadership, and continuous improvement across reliability, observability, and risk controls.

You will be one of Technology’s key leadership team members, working directly with the CTO and other Engineering Managers and cross-functional senior leadership to build a seamless customer experience for ambitious investors. You will work with a high-performing team of Engineers across Trading, Super and Save product pillars where you’ll gain exposure to Stake’s full suite of products. 

Further responsibilities include: 

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers: hiring, onboarding, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Own outcomes across banking flows (e.g., deposits/withdrawals, bank linking and funding lifecycle) with clear prioritisation across competing demands.
• Drive operational excellence: on-call health, incident response, post-incident follow-through, runbooks, and measurable reliability improvements.
• Provide EM-level technical leadership: architecture and design reviews, migrations, integration strategy, and pragmatic risk tradeoffs.
• Manage external dependencies (vendors/partners) with strong coordination, clear SLAs/expectations, and robust failure handling.
• Partner with Risk/Compliance and Operations to embed controls without slowing delivery—balancing customer experience, risk, and time-to-ship.

• Experience leading a team delivering production systems where reliability and correctness matter.
• Strong people leadership: coaching, difficult feedback, performance management, and building inclusive teams with a great culture.
• Proven execution: prioritisation across multiple workstreams, managing dependencies, and delivering through ambiguity.
• Strong technical judgement across distributed systems and integrations (you don’t need to code every day, but you can lead technical direction).
• Comfort operating in risk-sensitive or regulated-adjacent environments with audits, controls, and high expectations.
• Fintech/banking/payments experience; money movement; or vendor integration experience.

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:

• 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)
• Discretionary 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.

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.