Front End Engineer

Stake; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development allowance

Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Childcare allowance

Annual leave swap days

Discretionary performance bonus

Stake products: discount on membership

Job summary

Stake is seeking a Front End Engineer in Sydney to join our Technology team. You’ll contribute to the design, development and operation of scalable front-end systems powering a large investor audience, working closely with Product, Design and Engineering.

This hybrid role offers ownership, opportunities for growth and the chance to influence architectural decisions while delivering high-quality software for thousands of customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building customer-facing front-end apps in modern engineering environments using TypeScript, Ionic and Angular.
• Strong focus on delivering polished, intuitive user experiences and scalable code.
• Ability to balance speed, quality and long-term maintainability.
• Ownership mindset with attention to performance, accessibility and maintainability.
• Collaborative team player who shares knowledge and uplifts the team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, performant front-end features that improve user experience and support business outcomes.
• Build and maintain accessible, responsive UIs and front-end services for growth.
• Own key front-end systems and design system components in production.
• Contribute to front-end architectural decisions to improve performance and maintainability.
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to craft polished customer experiences.

Skills

TypeScript

Ionic

Angular

Performance optimization

Accessibility

Tools

Storybook

Figma

Job description

About Stake

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.

About the role

We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join our Technology team in Sydney.

Technology sits at the heart of everything we build at Stake. Our engineers are responsible for creating the products, services and infrastructure that power the investing experience for hundreds of thousands of customers. From trading and portfolio management to account operations and new product launches, engineering plays a critical role in shaping how customers interact with Stake every day.

As a Front End Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design, development and operation of systems that are reliable, scalable and built for long-term growth. You'll work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teammates to solve meaningful customer problems, deliver high-quality software and continuously improve the systems that underpin our platform.

This is a role with significant ownership and opportunity for growth. You'll help shape technical decisions, contribute to architectural discussions and take responsibility for the systems you build from development through to production. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like

• Delivered high-quality, performant front-end features that materially improve the experience of customers and contribute to key business outcomes
• Built and maintained accessible, responsive UIs and front-end services that support Stake’s continued growth and evolving product offering
• Become a trusted owner of key front-end systems and design system components, confidently supporting them in production
• Contributed to front-end architectural decisions that improve performance, maintainability and developer experience across the platform
• Consistently delivered high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code while balancing UX polish with technical excellence
• Helped improve engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Built strong partnerships across Product, Design and Engineering to craft intuitive, polished customer experiences
• Contributed to a culture of continuous improvement, helping make Stake a stronger engineering organisation over time

You’ll thrive here if…

• You have experience building and operating customer-facing front-end applications in modern engineering environments, such as Typescript, Ionic and Angular
• You care deeply about crafting intuitive, polished user experiences and understand that the best solutions are the ones that are easiest to operate, maintain and evolve
• You’re pragmatic and can make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality and long-term sustainability
• You take ownership of outcomes and enjoy getting into the details of performance, accessibility and maintainability
• You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, sharing knowledge and helping raise the standard of the team around you
• You’re curious, adaptable and excited to learn new technologies and approaches when they create better outcomes

Bonus if you’ve ever

• Worked with Angular, RxJS or modern component and design system tooling, such as Storybook or Figma
• Built or contributed to mobile apps using Ionic or similar cross-platform frameworks
• Applied accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG 2.0) and tools like Lighthouse to ship inclusive, high-performing UIs
• Contributed to backend services (e.g. Go) to help unblock end-to-end delivery
• Worked in fintech, investing, financial services or another highly regulated environment

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.

• Professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• 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

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and 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.