Senior Software Engineer - KICK Discovery & Presence

About this role

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.

Why this role in the Discovery & Presence team might interest you:

• **World leading product:** KICK sits among the big 4 global live streaming platforms, alongside YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch
• **Hyper growth:** Reached 100M+ users in just 3 years since launch
• **Massive scale:** This team powers the public facing APIs serving 1B+ requests monthly, within a platform handling 5B+ backend requests daily
• **Core impact:** Build systems powering discovery, real-time engagement, search, and presence
• **Engagement at scale:** Drive Drops, Channel Points, and global badges, expand search, build AI-driven personalisation & recommendations, and build campaigns with major game studios (e.g. Rockstar)
• **Modern full-stack environment:** Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, Kafka, React, Next.js, GraphQL, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.
• **Ownership:** Full lifecycle ownership - You Build It, You Run It

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, an...