Senior Software Engineer - KICK Discovery & Presence
EasygoMelbourne, Victoria, Australia · Posted 4 months agoDescription
What is Kick?
Kick is a global live-streaming platform for all types of entertainment content. Our mission is to empower content creators, event organisers, and content rights holders by providing them with the tools and revenue-sharing structures they need to monetise and grow their audiences.
As a result, we are quickly becoming a household name, attracting top-tier creators and expanding rapidly worldwide. You may have seen us in the UFC octagon or on the side of an F1 car, as we seize every opportunity that comes our way.
Kick is now recognised in the big four of live streaming platforms globally, standing tall alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. In 3 years, we’ve already made a significant impact and have plenty more to achieve. We’re at the beginning of an exciting journey and are looking for brilliant minds to join us.
Why this role in the Discovery & Presence team might interest you:
- World leading product: KICK sits among the big 4 global live streaming platforms, alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch
- Hyper growth: Reached 100M+ users in just 3 years since launch
- Massive scale: This team powers the public facing APIs serving 1B+ requests monthly, within a platform handling 5B+ backend requests daily
- Core impact: Build systems powering discovery, real-time engagement, search, and presence
- Engagement at scale: Drive Drops, Channel Points, and global badges, expand search, build AI-driven personalisation & recommendations, and build campaigns with major game studios (e.g. Rockstar)
- Modern full-stack environment: Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, Kafka, React, Next.js, GraphQL, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.
- Ownership: Full lifecycle ownership - You Build It, You Run It
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
- Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
- Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to effectively communicate technical concepts.
- Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes to enhance team performance and efficiency.
- Provide technical guidance and mentor mid level engineers in the team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 6-7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role (Go, PHP and React/NextJS).
- Strong understanding of code architecture and design principles.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Positive attitude and eagerness to learn new technologies to grow as a full-stack engineer.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a large-scale product company
- Experience building web applications and debugging production applications
Some of the perks of joining us:
- Innovate without red tape - have an idea on Monday and push it to production by Friday, while championing engineering excellence across the organisation.
- Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD, Cloudflare, Datadog, Golang and React/Next.js.
- Exposure to global, high-scale products handling 3 billion+ requests per day.
- Explore your career options with opportunities to grow laterally and vertically.
- Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
- Lucrative annual bonuses.
- EAP access for you and your family.
- 30 days personal leave bundled - use it how you like.
- Paid volunteer day.
- Daily catered breakfast, unlimited snacks and refreshments, plus an in-house full-time barista, fresh juices and smoothies.
- Massage Wednesdays.
- Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
- Enjoy a buzzing office with pool tables, table tennis, gaming consoles, product testing tournaments, plus up to 2 days work from home and flexible start/finish times.
We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.
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