Overview

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 are rapidly expanding and working with top-tier creators globally. Kick is recognised among the leading live-streaming platforms worldwide, and we are looking for brilliant minds to join us as we grow.

Engineering at Kick

Joining Kick at this point in our journey is a unique opportunity. We are scaling globally while innovating and pushing the boundaries of our industry, combining scale-up and start-up dynamics. As an engineer, you will tackle interesting challenges, own your work, and influence a product used by millions daily. There will be greenfield opportunities for new services and scale-up or stabilisation work for existing services. Everything you build will be used the day you deploy it.

Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment and strive for excellence in large-scale software design and development.

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 affect millions of users. High ownership, greenfield challenges, and serious scale await you.

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
- 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, 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 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 Kick are the driver of our success. To ensure our products and culture include everyone’s perspectives and experience, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are committed to providing a workplace that encourages participation and equal chance, where merit and accomplishment are the criteria for success.

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