About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will plan, design, and deliver scalable software for Stake to provide an exceptional product experience. You will build highly available systems, contribute to architectural solutions, and implement technologies in a fast-growing business. This role offers significant ownership and growth opportunities, allowing you to shape technical decisions and take responsibility for systems from development through production.
Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and deliver scalable software for Stake.
- Build highly available systems.
- Contribute to architectural solutions.
- Implement technologies in a dynamic environment.
- Manage software products in a fast-growing business.
- Shape technical decisions.
- Contribute to architectural discussions.
- Take responsibility for systems from development through to production.
- Lead the design and architecture of complex technical projects.
- Set the standard for high-quality, maintainable, and testable code.
- Own the systems you build, thriving in an on-call environment.
- Be the subject matter expert and point of escalation for high priority issues.
- Provide reliable development effort estimates.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-complexity solutions.
- Advocate for best practices.
- Champion code quality in PR reviews.
- Actively contribute to raising the standards of the wider engineering team.
- Be generous with your knowledge.
- Work collaboratively with your peers.
- Mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Keep it simple; simple solutions are the default.
- Be a pragmatist; pick the right tool for the job and make sensible trade-offs.
- Raise the engineering bar.
- Build up those around you.
Skills
- Golang
- Distributed systems
- Event-driven architectures
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Cloud-native technologies
- CockroachDB
- Redis
- gRPC
- Pub/Sub
- High-availability systems operating at scale
- Fintech
- Investing
- Financial services
- Highly regulated environment
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Professional development allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Childcare allowance
- Wellbeing support
- Annual leave swap days
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
About the Company
- Stake is an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth.
- We offer seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, empowering a new wave of investors.
- We have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration.
- We are reshaping the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence, and unleashing the investor in everyone.
