Senior Backend Engineer - KICK Platform Trust

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 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, greenfield challenges, and serious scale.

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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

Familiarity with internet fraud/abuse, botting incentive/desincentives structures; Familiarity with streaming culture and platforms; Experience building web applications; Experience debugging production applications

Benefits

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, 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