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Join the team that bridges the gap between creators and audiences on Kick. We own the end-to-end growth experience: helping viewers seamlessly discover content they love through personalisation, and equipping creators with the tools they need to manage their channels and build their empires. 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.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
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
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
Nice to have:
Experience building web applications
Experience debugging production applications
What we offer:
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