Senior Software Development Engineer - Kick
Melbourne, Australia is a great city for tech enthusiasts.
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.
We're rapidly scaling and establishing ourselves globally while simultaneously innovating and pushing the limits of our industry. 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.
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.
* 4+ 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.
Some 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.
* Office first culture with flexible start and finish times.
* Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.
We believe that everyone at Easygo should feel welcome and included. 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.