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About the Role
This pivotal leadership role leads the team responsible for Stake's trading platform and the journey beyond. You will be at the helm of a high-performing team of engineers, driving the technical and cultural foundations for Stake's next-generation trading experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers, including hiring, onboarding, feedback, performance management, and career development.
- Own outcomes across trading flows (e.g., buy/sell, pricing, charting, portfolio, user experience) with clear prioritization.
- Drive operational excellence, including on-call health, incident response, post-incident follow-through, runbooks, and reliability improvements.
- Provide EM-level technical leadership, including architecture and design reviews, migrations, integration strategy, and 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.
Requirements
- An investor or trader with a depth of understanding within the space.
- Experience managing engineering teams and understanding how responsibilities shift with team size.
- Experience in a startup environment, understanding the pace, trade-offs, and accountability of supporting a customer-facing production system.
- Commercial acumen, prioritizing company outcomes over single team outcomes.
- Willingness to apply and explain why this role is desired in a cover letter.
Skills
- Technical development
- Team oversight
- Conducting 1:1s
- Coaching
- Professional development
- Performance management
- Architecture and design reviews
- Migrations
- Integration strategy
- Risk tradeoffs
- Vendor and partner management
- Risk and compliance controls embedding
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- EM-level technical leadership
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with autonomy
- Learning from top industry talent
- Meaningful role in building a growing company
- Career relevant development and training
- 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
- Talent referral bonus
- Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
- Stake products discount (SMSF 30% off yearly membership, $295 AUD annual trading credit, Stake Black account)
- Recognition awards
- Team celebrations
About the Company
- Stake is an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth.
- We offer seamless, immersive access to the share markets, empowering a new wave of investors.
- Stake has grown rapidly from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company with over 750,000 customers and more than A$8 billion under administration.
- We break barriers and are driven by ambition and a desire for continuous growth, creating a collaborative and high-performance environment.
- Our shared vision is to unleash the investor in everyone.
- We are reshaping the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating wins.
Equal Opportunity
- Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity.
- We are proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
- Endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.
- 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.