Software Engineer - Design Systems

About the team

The Design Systems Team is a frontend engineering function responsible for building and scaling the shared UI foundations that power our Easygo products. After successfully establishing a robust design system and component library for Easygo's entertainment products, the team is now focused on evolving these foundations to support Kick’s next phase - driving more scalable frontend engineering practices, improving developer experience, and enabling rapid, consistent delivery across teams.

This team translates design standards into high quality, reusable components and tooling for web and native platforms, ensuring performance, accessibility, and consistency at scale - not just for Kick, but for future products as we continue to expand.

You’ll join a squad of front-end engineers working in a cloud-native environment, using technologies such as React, NextJS, Storybook, Tailwind and NX. Your work will empower hundreds of engineers across the company to build and deploy features faster and with confidence, by providing a robust, scalable foundation of components, patterns, and tooling. Every improvement you make helps teams ship high quality products more efficiently, ensuring consistent experiences for millions of users from the moment code hits production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicating technical concepts and project updates.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring to junior engineers in the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role (e.g. e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS) 
• Experience working with UI component libraries such as Storybook
• Experience working with monorepo architectures (e.g. NX) and micro frontend patterns to enable scalable, decoupled frontend development.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Proven track record of building successful design systems and/or complex user interfaces spanning multiple platforms.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Proficiency in establishing developer ecosystem communities (internal and/or external), providing easy to use component libraries via high quality documentation and developer experience.
• Experience working with server-side rendering frameworks (e.g. SvelteKit, NextJS, etc)
• Exposure to building global, large scale volume products operating at high frequency throughput.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Championing Design Systems Excellence to influence the growth of our global scale software products.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent and product designers in Australia using a vast technology stack: Typescript, Svelte, React, Storybook, NextJS.
• Build component libraries for 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 
• Lucrative Annual Bonuses
• Paid volunteer day
• Two full-time barista’s who will make your daily coffee, tea or fresh juice!
• Daily catered breakfast
• On-site masseuse on 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
• Help yourself drinks fridges and snack shelves

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.