About the job
What is Kick?
Kick is an innovative global platform dedicated to live-streaming entertainment content. Our mission is to empower content creators, event organizers, and rights holders by equipping them with essential tools and lucrative revenue-sharing frameworks to grow and monetize their audiences.
Rapidly gaining recognition, we have become a household name, attracting elite creators and expanding our reach worldwide. You may have seen our brand showcased in the UFC octagon or splashed across F1 cars as we capitalize on every opportunity.
Kick is now firmly positioned within the elite tier of global live-streaming platforms, standing alongside industry giants such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. Within just three years, we have made a substantial impact and have much more to accomplish. Join us at the beginning of this thrilling journey as we seek brilliant minds to help forge our path forward.
About the Team:
The Viewer Engagement and Experience feature development team is the driving force behind Kick's platform, delivering real-time, high-volume features that keep millions of viewers engaged. We oversee the core customer experience, which includes seamless live streaming, rapid-fire chats, and real-time community interactions that define Kick.
From implementing lightning-fast chat messaging during massive global events (imagine 4M+ concurrent viewers) to architecting scalable systems, our team consistently pushes technical boundaries. You will face intricate backend challenges, develop and deploy user-facing features at scale, and aid in evolving our architecture as we transition to high-performance Golang-based services.
If you're eager to create products used by millions immediately upon deployment and tackle some of the most demanding challenges in concurrency, performance, and scalability, this is your chance to make an immediate impact.

