Melbourne, Australia
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 Twitch. In 3 years we've already made a significant impact and 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.
As an engineer working at Kick, you will tackle interesting and challenging engineering problems, own your work, and be responsible for a product used by millions of people every day. There will be green‐field opportunities for new services as well as scale‐up and stabilisation opportunities for our established services. Everything you build will be used by millions 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.
About the team
We're hiring engineers for the Platform‐Trust Team at Kick. You'll build real‐time, large‐scale systems to detect and prevent fraud and abuse – working on low‐latency pipelines, distributed systems, and high‐impact problems that directly affect millions of users.
High ownership, green‐field challenges, and serious scale. If you enjoy solving adversarial, data‐heavy problems, this is worth a chat.
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
* Bachelor's/Master's 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).
* 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
* Familiarity with internet fraud/abuse, botting incentive/desincentives structures.
* Familiarity with streaming culture and platforms.
* Experience building web 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, Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, data pipelines and edge computing.
* 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 4 pm 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 are committed to an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.
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