[Hiring] Engineering Technical Lead - Payments @Stake

Role Description

We are looking for an Engineering Technical Lead to join our Payments squad in Sydney .

Money movement sits at the heart of the Stake experience. Every deposit, withdrawal, transfer and funding event is a critical moment of trust between our customers and our platform. The Payments squad owns the systems that enable customers to move money seamlessly, securely and reliably across Stake's growing suite of products.

As an Engineering Technical Lead, you'll lead the team responsible for building and scaling Stake's payments capabilities. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering excellence, product thinking and people leadership, partnering closely with Product, Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance to deliver experiences that are reliable, intuitive and built for scale.

This is a pivotal leadership role with significant ownership across customer experience, operational reliability and platform evolution. Your team will help define how customers fund, move and access their money across Stake.

We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.

What success looks like

• Built and developed a high-performing engineering team with a strong culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Improved the reliability, scalability and operational resilience of Stake's payments platform, ensuring customers can move money with confidence.
• Delivered meaningful improvements across deposits, withdrawals, account funding, payment processing and related operational experiences.
• Established clear technical direction and architectural standards that support increasing payment volumes, product expansion and future growth.
• Strengthened observability, incident management and operational processes across critical money movement systems.
• Built trusted partnerships across Product, Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance, helping teams move quickly while maintaining strong controls and customer outcomes.
• Developed engineers into stronger technical contributors and future leaders within the organisation.
• Contributed meaningfully to Stake's broader engineering strategy, culture and organisational growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and understanding how to balance people leadership, delivery and technical decision-making.
• Deep care for customer outcomes and understanding the importance of trust, reliability and operational excellence in payments experiences.
• Strong technical judgement and ability to confidently navigate architecture, platform and operational decisions.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys solving complex problems with imperfect information.
• Ability to create alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Combines ambition with pragmatism, focusing on what creates the greatest long-term impact for customers and the business.

Bonus if you’ve ever

• Built or scaled payments, banking, fintech or other customer-facing financial products.
• Worked with payment processors, banking integrations, reconciliation systems or money movement infrastructure.
• Led teams responsible for high-availability, mission-critical systems where reliability and customer trust are paramount.
• Worked closely with risk, compliance, fraud or operational teams within regulated environments.
• Managed complex third-party integrations, vendors or platform partnerships.
• Helped scale engineering organisations through periods of significant growth.

Benefits

• 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.

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