Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the web frontend platform architecture (React / Next.js) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
- Write and ship high-quality production code, setting the standard for React, TypeScript, and frontend engineering best practices
- Deliver end-to-end platform improvements that directly address system bottlenecks and failure modes
- Establish and enforce guardrails and standards for React patterns, state management, data fetching, and performance
- Design systems that handle large-scale traffic, burst events, and degrade gracefully under failure or attack
- Improve deployment safety, rollout strategies, and failure recovery to prevent platform-wide incidents
- Partner with Platform and Infrastructure teams on scaling, load balancing, caching, and lifecycle management
- Drive cross-cutting initiatives such as rendering strategy improvements, static asset delivery, and reducing redundant backend load
- Contribute to feature development using React and Next.js to ensure platform decisions are grounded in real use cases
- Provide technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers and influencing frontend architecture decisions
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Structure: This team sits at the core of Kick’s user experience, owning and evolving the frontend platform that powers every interaction across the product.
Additional Information
- Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
- Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, React, Next.js, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare.
- Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!)
- Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
- EAP access for you and your family
- Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
- Give back with a paid volunteer day
- Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
- Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
- In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs
- Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
- Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week
- Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles
