Tech Lead - Trade

Stake is looking for an Tech Lead - Trade 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.

About this role

A pivotal leadership role within Stake, this role leads the team responsible for our trading platform and the journey well beyond it. You'll be at the helm of a high-performing team of engineers, driving the technical and cultural foundations that will define Stake's next generation trading experience.

You'll be accountable for both delivery and long-term excellence: predictable execution, clear ownership, and the customer experience. When a trade doesn't go through, you feel it. If a customer surfaces an issue before the team does, you make it better. You provide a strong, reasoned voice for engineering, advocate for your team where it matters, and build the kind of environment where people do their best work.
You will be one of Technology's key leadership team members, working directly with the Head of Engineering, other Leads, and cross-functional senior leadership to build a seamless experience for ambitious investors. You will work with a high-performing team of engineers across Banking, Super and Accounts 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 trading flows (e.g., buy/sell, pricing, charting, portfolio, user experience) 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.

A bit about you

• You are an investor or trader, and have a depth of understanding within the space
• You've managed engineering teams before, and you understand how your role and responsibilities shift between a team of 4 and a team of 8 engineers.
• You've ideally worked in a startup environment and know what supporting a customer-facing production system truly entails: the pace, the trade-offs, and the accountability.
• You have commercial acumen. You care more about the company's outcomes than any single team's outcomes, and you make decisions that reflect it.

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!

Benefits of working 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. 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.

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 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.