Tech Lead - Trade

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 Tech Lead - Trade to join our Technology team in Sydney.

Trading sits at the heart of the Stake experience. Every order, portfolio update, price movement and market interaction relies on systems that customers trust to perform when it matters most. The Trade squad owns some of the most critical experiences across the platform, helping customers confidently participate in the markets while ensuring reliability, performance and simplicity at scale.

As Tech Lead, you'll lead the engineering team responsible for Stake's core trading experience. You'll be accountable for both delivery and long-term technical excellence, guiding the architecture, operational maturity and engineering culture that underpin one of the most important parts of the business. When a customer places a trade, your team owns the experience end to end.

You'll be a key member of Technology's leadership group, working closely with Product, Design, Operations, Risk and Compliance leaders to solve complex problems and deliver exceptional customer outcomes. This is a role with significant influence across engineering strategy, product direction and team development. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like

Within your first two years, you'll have:

• Built and developed a high-performing engineering team that consistently delivers reliable, high-quality outcomes across the trading experience
• Strengthened the scalability, resilience and operational maturity of Stake's trading platform, improving reliability during periods of high customer activity and market volatility
• Delivered meaningful improvements across key customer journeys including trading, portfolio management, pricing, charting and market engagement experiences
• Embedded strong ownership and operational excellence across the team through effective incident management, service ownership and continuous improvement practices
• Guided key architectural decisions that improve performance, maintainability and long-term platform scalability
• Built trusted partnerships across Product, Design, Operations, Risk and Compliance to balance customer experience, risk management and delivery velocity
• Elevated engineering standards through mentoring, coaching and thoughtful technical leadership
• Played a key role in shaping Stake's broader technology strategy and helping build a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement

You'll thrive here if…

• You've led engineering teams before and understand how to balance people leadership, delivery and technical decision-making
• You have strong technical judgement and can make pragmatic trade-offs that support both customer outcomes and long-term platform health
• You care deeply about reliability, operational excellence and delivering exceptional customer experiences
• You're comfortable operating in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve and ownership is expected
• You have strong commercial awareness and consistently make decisions that support broader business goals
• You communicate clearly, build trust quickly and create environments where people can do their best work

Bonus if you've ever

• Built or scaled trading, investing, brokerage or other real-time financial products
• Worked on high-availability systems where uptime, latency and customer trust are critical
• Led large-scale migrations, architectural modernisation initiatives or platform reliability programs
• Worked closely with risk, compliance and operational teams in regulated industries
• Been an active investor and have a strong understanding of customer expectations within investing products

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
• 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

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.