Senior Backend Software Engineer KICK Viewer Engagement & Experience
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6 days ago
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Job Summary
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 3 years weve already made a significant impact and have plenty more to achieve. Were 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 Kicks 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. Youll 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:
- Bachelors/Masters 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 anddebugging 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 K8s 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 9000 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 baristas 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 everyones 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
At Easygo, we pride ourselves in building smart, industry leading entertainment products online. Learn more about our games, apps & career opportunities.
