Staff Software Engineer - Kick

1 Week ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Kick is a global live-streaming platform empowering content creators and event organizers with tools and revenue-sharing. Rapidly expanding and attracting top-tier creators, Kick is making a significant impact in the industry. Joining Kick offers a unique opportunity to solve challenging engineering problems, own your work, and build products used by millions daily. The engineering culture fosters continuous learning, growth, and excellence in large-scale software design and development, setting a benchmark for mastery.
Must have:
  • Actively engage in hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
  • Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.
  • Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes.
  • Analyse complex problems and provide effective solutions.
  • Lead and independently complete medium-sized projects or components.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative in technical discussions.
  • Share knowledge and best practices with the team.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams.
Good to have:
  • Experience building web applications
  • Experience debugging production applications
Perks:
  • Championing the engineering excellence mindset to influence cultural change across the organisation.
  • Working alongside a squad of Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Go, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
  • Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
  • EAP access for you and your family.
  • Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
  • A full-time barista who will make you coffee, tea and fresh juices.
  • Daily catered breakfast.
  • Massage Wednesdays.
  • Team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
  • Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.
  • Paid volunteer day.
  • Office first culture with flexible start and finish times.
  • Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.

Job Details

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.

We’re the newest players in a well-established industry, and we’ve already made a significant impact. We have plenty more to achieve. We’re at the beginning of an exciting journey and are looking for brilliant minds to join us.

Engineering at Kick

Joining Kick at this point in our journey is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We’re rapidly scaling and establishing ourselves globally while simultaneously innovating and pushing the limits of our industry. That means we’re part scale-up, part start-up. Kick is taking on the global players in the live-streaming industry and making an impact.

As an engineer working at Kick, you will be given interesting and challenging engineering problems to solve, have ultimate ownership of your work, and be responsible for a product used by millions of people every day. There will be greenfield opportunities for new services, as well as scale-up and stabilisation opportunities for our established services. Everything you build will be used by millions of people the day you deploy it.

Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Actively engage in hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and best practices.
  • Innovate within the team by pushing for improvements and driving constructive changes to enhance team performance and efficiency.
  • Analyse complex problems and provide effective solutions, contributing to team goals and initiatives.
  • Lead and independently complete medium-sized projects or components from start to finish.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative in technical discussions.
  • Share knowledge and best practices with the team, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to effectively communicate technical concepts.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ 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 building web applications
  • Experience debugging production applications

Some of the perks of working for us:

  • Championing the engineering excellence mindset to influence cultural change across the organisation.
  • Working alongside a squad of Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Go, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
  • Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
  • EAP access for you and your family.
  • Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
  • A full-time barista who will make you coffee, tea and fresh juices.
  • Daily catered breakfast.
  • Massage Wednesdays.
  • Team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
  • Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles.
  • Paid volunteer day.
  • Office first culture with flexible start and finish times.
  • Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.

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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