Front End Engineer

Stake is looking for a Front End Engineer to join our team at our Sydney CBD HQ, with a flexible working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH). 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+ 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. In this role, you will be working to create exceptional user experiences that transform the way our customers invest. We're seeking an engineer who is passionate about design, understands UX/UI Principles and who wants to build truly intuitive products. You'll have the freedom to design, architect and implement technical solutions to Stake user problems. Financial markets are complex, so we’re looking for a hands-on, curious problem solver who enjoys building high-quality products at scale. You thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams and care deeply about crafting intuitive, polished user experiences. You’re happy getting into the details, while also thinking about performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Solid experience as a software engineer with a frontend focus, building production web applications used by thousands of users, Strong skills in TypeScript and Angular, with working knowledge of RxJS and state management, Experience building responsive, accessible UIs using HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and modern JavaScript, A strong interest in UX and UI principles, including performance, animations, micro-interactions, and Core Web Vitals, Practical experience applying accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG 2.0) and tools like Lighthouse, Experience working with or contributing to design systems (component libraries, Storybook, Figma), Familiarity with frontend testing approaches across unit, integration, and E2E testing, Comfort working in Ionic framework and contributing to Go backend services when needed, Experience working in agile teams with designers, product managers, and other engineers, An interest in finance or financial markets, with a willingness to keep learning, Strong communication skills and a proactive, growth-oriented mindset.