Staff Software Engineer - Frontend Web Platform 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.

This team sits at the core of KICK’s web user experience, owning and evolving the frontend platform that powers every interaction across the product. Its mission is to build a high-performance, resilient, scalable, and consistent web foundation that enables product teams to ship faster while delivering seamless experiences to millions of users in real time. 

This team acts as a force multiplier across engineering. It goes beyond feature development by defining frontend architecture, establishing engineering standards, improving developer workflows, and driving alignment across teams. The team strengthens reliability across the frontend ecosystem by optimising rendering strategies, improving deployment safety, reducing redundant backend load, and ensuring the platform performs under extreme traffic, live events, and failure scenarios. 

The role requires primarily hands-on engineering experience combined with technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, and organisational influence. You will help shape how frontend engineering is done at scale, working closely with wider engineering, design and product to remove systemic bottlenecks and raise the quality of frontend delivery across KICK.

• →Own and evolve KICK’s web frontend platform architecture across React, Next.js, TypeScript, and the wider frontend ecosystem.
• →Write and ship high-quality production code, setting the standard for frontend engineering, testing, performance, and reliability.
• →Define the frontend platform strategy, technical direction, and long-term architecture in partnership with engineering, product, and design teams.
• →Establish and evolve standards, patterns, and best practices for frontend development across teams.
• →Own and improve frontend developer experience through shared tooling, libraries, documentation, and self-service capabilities.
• →Lead cross-team frontend initiatives from problem definition through delivery and adoption, using technical guidance, RFCs, documentation, code reviews, pairing, and shared architectural decisions.
• →Identify and remove systemic frontend bottlenecks, reliability risks, performance issues, accessibility gaps, and production failure modes across the product.
• →Mentor and support engineers across teams, helping raise frontend engineering quality, consistency, and ownership.
• →Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of technical context.

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong frontend focus 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript fundamentals, NextJS and TypeScript.
• Experience with server-side rendering (SSR), modern frontend architecture, and testing frameworks 
• Proven experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing frontend architecture.
• Experience designing scalable systems, not just implementing features 
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and deliver complex initiatives end-to-end. 
• Experience working in cross-team environments requiring alignment and standardisation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across teams.
• Ability to balance hands-on work with strategic leadership responsibilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 

• Experience setting up or leading a frontend platform or enablement function.
• Experience delivering and maintaining high-traffic, large-scale web applications or frontend platforms.
• Experience working effectively with distributed teams across multiple time zones, including asynchronous collaboration with offshore teams and significant time differences.