Senior Backend Engineer – Platform (Go)

Easygo is an Australian technology powerhouse behind global brands Stake, KICK, and Twist Gaming. As we continue to build and scale our engineering presence in Belgrade, we’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Data and Integration Infrastructure team to help shape the platforms and systems that power our products globally.

About the Team

You will join an established engineering team responsible for enabling and accelerating product and service teams working on Kick. The team builds and maintains shared platform capabilities that underpin Kick’s core systems, improving reliability, consistency, and developer experience across the platform.

The team owns foundational components such as event pipelines, schema governance, service gateways, and notification delivery. These systems ensure that Kick’s services communicate reliably and that data flows across the platform are accurate, observable, and analytics-ready.

By providing robust, well-designed platform primitives and templates, the team plays a critical role in shaping how Kick is built and scaled, optimising ways of working, reducing duplication across teams, and forming the backbone for reliable integrations and data-driven decision-making.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Go who enjoys building platform-level capabilities that enable other engineering teams to move faster and more safely.

You are an experienced engineer who takes pride in designing and maintaining reliable, scalable systems, and who understands the critical role that strong platform foundations play in the success of a large, evolving organisation.

You’re comfortable working on core infrastructure and shared services, and you care deeply about engineering quality. You value clean interfaces, well-defined contracts, and highly observable systems, and you approach complex problems pragmatically and thoughtfully.

As a senior engineer, you are able to:

• Work independently on complex, high-impact initiatives
• Contribute meaningfully to technical discussions and architectural decisions
• Support and elevate others through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and collaboration

You’re motivated by enablement and long-term impact, and you thrive in environments where improving reliability, data quality, and developer experience is just as important as shipping new features.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Design and build shared services and platform capabilities, ensuring high standards of code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Optimise existing services for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks, reducing technical debt, and improving system resilience.
• Take ownership of services throughout their lifecycle while ensuring high code quality, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and operational stakeholders, clearly communicating technical concepts, trade-offs, and progress.
• Work across different problem domains and projects over time, adapting to changing priorities and contributing to improvements of varying complexity based on business needs.
• Actively contribute as a team player, supporting others when needed, asking questions, and participating constructively in technical discussions and decision-making.
• Provide technical leadership through solution design, code reviews, and knowledge sharing, supporting the team's overall technical quality and consistency.
• Communicate effectively in written and spoken English, presenting ideas clearly to colleagues and stakeholders across teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Strong experience with Go, and familiarity with building and operating distributed systems, APIs, and shared services.
• Proven track record of designing and modernising systems with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and system optimisation.
• Experience contributing to technical direction through collaboration, design input, and mentorship when appropriate.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to a broad audience and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience debugging production applications and managing incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Demonstrated a high level of autonomy and self-sufficiency in driving projects to completion.

Why Join Easygo?

• Performance Reward: Annual bonus linked to individual and company performance.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for development, learning, and career progression within a global organization.
• Health & Wellbeing: Private health insurance for you and your dependants.
• Office Perks: Daily catered lunch, snacks and beverages, parking reimbursement, and a modern Belgrade office.
• Global Exposure: Opportunities to collaborate with—and occasionally visit—our Melbourne headquarters.
• Team Culture: Regular team-building activities and a professional, collaborative working environment.

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We believe in-person collaboration is key to building strong teams and delivering great results. This role follows a hybrid work model, with a strong on-site presence at our Belgrade office and flexibility when needed.

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