Senior Backend Software Engineer - KICK Viewer Engagement

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.

About the team:

The Viewer Engagement and Experience feature development team powers the heart of Kick’s platform and the real-time, high-volume features that keep millions of viewers coming back. We own the core customer experience: seamless live stream viewing, rapid fire live chats, and the real-time community interactions that make Kick, Kick.

From delivering lightning fast chat messaging across massive global events (think 4M+ concurrent viewers) to architecting systems that scale, this team pushes technical limits daily. You’ll tackle complex backend challenges, build and ship user-facing features at scale, and help evolve our architecture as we migrate toward high-performance Golang based services.

If you want to build products used by millions the moment you deploy, and solve some of the most demanding concurrency, performance, and scalability problems in technology, this is where you can make immediate impact.

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 junior 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).
• 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: 

• Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, Terraform, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!)
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform 
• EAP access for you and your family
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
• Give back with a paid volunteer day
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
• Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles

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.