Software Engineer

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 500,000+ global customers and more than A$3 billion under administration.

Ambition defines our customer base as well as our team. Our working environment is energetic, collaborative and supportive. Stake’s internal mantra is ‘never settle’ and everyone is encouraged to take ownership and challenged to deliver high-quality execution.

This role is your chance to contribute in making a lasting impact on the financial security of thousands and thousands of Aussies and Kiwis.

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. Enhance trading, banking, payments, and cash management systems. Work in a dynamic environment, implement technologies, and manage software products in a fast-growing business.

A bit about you

• You're a hands-on problem solver. Financial markets are complex and require creativity to provide a great customer experience whilst maintaining accuracy, compliance, and availability.
• You have experience with Golang, SQL/Postgres, and building RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of running within a Linux environment and comfortable on the Linux command line.
• You have some experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure and understand how modern web applications are structured end-to-end.
• You have built end-to-end applications. You understand how a modern web service is constructed, and you have experience beyond maintaining existing code.
• You have a security first mindset and follow best practices.

We have exciting growth plans for our engineering team, from mid-level to lead. If you are a Golang developer and the level or timing isn't right at the moment, please feel free to express your interest for a future opportunity

At Stake, we value hustle over honours degrees, so we're more interested in you than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into head first and be part of our mission, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

Benefits of working at Stake

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.

But we also have perks. Not long ago, we proudly introduced new benefits under the Grow with Stake program. Please see the whole list on our Careers website, including:

• $2,500/year professional development allowance
• $1,000/year wellbeing allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance of up to $18,000 in value over 24 months
• 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.

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 a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer –which means 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.