Software Development Engineer (Frontend) Kick at Easygo Gaming

Kick is seeking a Software Development Engineer (Frontend) to join their team in Melbourne, Australia. Kick is a global live-streaming platform for entertainment content, aiming to empower creators with tools and revenue-sharing structures. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a rapidly scaling environment, solving challenging engineering problems and impacting millions of users daily.

The Software Development Engineer will actively engage in hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting. They will contribute to team goals, lead projects independently, and foster a collaborative learning environment.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Innovate within the team and drive constructive changes.
• Analyze complex problems and provide effective solutions.
• Lead and complete medium-sized projects independently.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative in technical discussions.
• Share knowledge and best practices with the team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in programming languages and frameworks (Go, PHP and React).
• Strong understanding of code architecture and design principles.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Positive attitude and eagerness to learn.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Kick Offers:

• 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.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Office first culture with flexible start and finish times.
• Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.