Software Platform Engineer

Stake is looking for a Software Platform Engineer to join our team at our HQ in Bondi Junction or work from home, 100% remote from anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.

We’re an Australian investing platform on a mission to help ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company with even bigger plans. Today we have 500,000+ global customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

Ambition defines our customer base as well as our team. Our working environment is energetic, collaborative and supportive. Stake’s internal mantra is ‘never settle’ and everyone is encouraged to take ownership and challenged to deliver high-quality execution. 

This role is your chance to contribute in making a lasting impact on the financial security of thousands and thousands of Aussies and Kiwis.

The role

Join Stake to design and build core platform services, libraries, and tooling that empower our engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable systems. You'll focus on creating reusable components, defining engineering patterns, and providing architectural guidance to streamline development workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reusable Libraries & Patterns: Design and implement reusable libraries for common functionalities like observability, and error handling, and promote best practices for service design and performance.
• Platform Services & Tooling: Develop and maintain internal services and tools for streamlined software development and operations, including authentication, service discovery, and configuration management.
• Architectural Guidance: Collaborate on service design patterns and contribute to architectural decisions that enhance system scalability and reliability.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as a liaison between platform and product teams, ensuring platform capabilities meet development needs and partnering with DevOps and SRE teams.

Essential Requirements:

• Software engineering background with experience in Golang (Preferred), Java, or Python
• Proficiency in developing reusable libraries and defining engineering patterns
• Experience in designing and maintaining core platform services and internal tooling
• Understanding of service design patterns and architectural principles for scalable systems.
• Proficient with containerisation and orchestration using Kubernetes
• Strong collaborative and communication skills
• Proficient with cloud platforms, particularly GCP

At Stake, we value hustle over honours degrees, so we’re more interested in you 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

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:

• Professional development allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Extra paid leave during tough times
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme

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 regardless of the outcome. If we think you’d be a great fit for our team, we’ll give you a call and take it from there.

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.