Senior Backend Engineer

Stake is looking for multiple Senior Backend Engineers to join our team at our HQ in the Sydney CBD 3 days a week (hybrid WFH) or Remote across Australia's East Coast

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 700,000+ 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.

Plan, design, and deliver scalable software for Stake to provide an exceptional product experience. Build highly available systems and contribute to architectural solutions. Work in a dynamic environment, implement technologies, and manage software products in a fast-growing business. In particular you will:

• Lead the design and architecture of complex technical projects, ensuring alignment with system-wide goals and standards;
• Set the standard for high-quality, maintainable, and testable code;
• Deeply own the systems you build, thriving in an on-call environment and being the subject matter expert and point of escalation for high priority issues;
• Provide reliable development effort estimates and ensure timely delivery of high-complexity solutions, balancing technical excellence with business needs;

• Golang, CockroachDB, Pub/Sub, gRPC, Redis
• GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog

Don't worry if you don't have experience with Golang or some of our other technologies. If you're a capable engineer with proven ability using other stacks and are happy to learn ours, then we want to hear from you

• You keep it simple, there is a place for complexity and exotic technologies but they have to be justified, simple solutions are the default
• You're a pragmatist, you "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", you pick the right tool for the job and make sensible trade-offs when needed
• You raise the engineering bar, you advocate for best practices, champion code quality in PR reviews and actively contribute to raising the standards of the wider engineering team
• You build up those around you, you are generous with your knowledge, you work collaboratively with your peers and mentor junior 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

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