Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead

About Easygo

Easygo is a founder-led, Melbourne-based entertainment company, one of Australia's fastest-growing. We build products that serve tens of millions of users globally, that includes:

• Stake — world's leading crypto casino & sportsbook (20M+ active users)
• KICK — live streaming platform with 95% creator monetisation (50M+ accounts)
• Twist Gaming — proprietary slot game studio

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organisation, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Are you a passionate and ambitious software engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth? We're seeking talented individuals who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions, and collaborate with some of the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

• Complex Projects, Creative Solutions: Dive into intricate projects that challenge and push boundaries. Solve complex technical puzzles and craft scalable solutions.
• Invest in Mastery: Access tailored learning programs, dedicated mentorship, and over 9,000 courses to accelerate your professional growth and gain deep expertise in building large-scale, high-volume products.
• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside exceptional engineers, exchanging ideas and driving innovation forward through collaboration.
• Maximum Impact: Your contributions will directly shape the future of top-tier entertainment experiences, solving complex technical puzzles and driving innovation across our global platform.
• Embrace Challenges, Celebrate Success: Take on challenges, learn from failures, and celebrate achievements together.

About the Role:

As a technical Lead you'll partner with the Engineering Manager to own the technical execution, delivery quality, and engineering maturity. The Tech lead will act as the ultimate guardian of engineering craft and the "reviewer of last resort" within their squad boundary. What gives this role its unique edge is the direct path it provides to expand their impact by decomposing complex systems, leveling up the engineers around them and steering a critical product domain to technical excellence. This role serves as an explicit launchpad, by successfully growing the squad’s technical capabilities and direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns the squad's engineering maturity, technical execution, and high-quality delivery end-to-end.
• Drives the decomposition of complex technical requirements, system architecture, and technical design decisions within the squad boundary.
• Acts as the reviewer of last resort for code and architecture within the squad, ensuring adherence to modern engineering best practices.
• Mentors and coaches the squad’s individual contributors (ICs) on technical craft, fostering an environment of continuous technical learning. Fosters a continuous growth culture by providing engineers with code-level feedback, mentorship, and delivering performance insights to the individual and the EM.
• Evaluates and establishes engineering regimes, ensuring high standards for code review, testing, and system predictability in line with chapter guardrails.
• Executes Strategic objectives: Partners closely with the Engineering Manager (EM) to deliver the squad’s technical execution and ensure delivery aligns with overall strategic objectives.
• Consults on critical squad health mechanisms, including hiring loops, technical interviews and performance reviews. 
• Escalates and aligns technical strategies by maintaining a dotted-line relationship to Tribe Leaders, Senior EMs, and Principals/Architects.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, preferably Typescript, JavaScript, Svelte or other server-side rendering frameworks (React, NextJS, Vue etc).
• Proficient in Node.js, Rest API, Kubernetes (K8), Design Patterns, Subscriptions (WebSockets, Pub/Sub etc) and related technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts. Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to lead resolution of complex technical challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proven track record of shipping production grade systems and navigating complex technical codebases within modern development stack. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage squad level execution, accurately, gauge delivery timelines and unblock technical dependencies. 
• Experienced in breaking down complex, ambiguous product specs into clear, manageable technical tasks and architectural milestones.
• Experienced in proactively mentoring and levelling up Mid to Senior Engineers through Pair Programming, structured code reviews and technical guidance. 
• Experience with Svelte + SvelteKit or other server-side rendering frameworks (e.g., React + NextJS, Vue + Nuxt, Quasar, etc).
• Proficiency in JavaScript fundamentals, Storybook, and related technologies.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Desirable experience

• AI-SDLC: Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tooling as a primary delivery accelerator. Ability to decompose ambiguous technical requirements into prompts, context packages, and governed outputs. Understands where AI output requires human gate-keeping and enforces that bar within the squad.

If you're passionate about growth, innovation, and working with the best, we'd love to have you on our team!

Benefits:

• Champion Engineering Excellence in one of Australia's fastest growing tech companies. 
• Lead teams of Full-Stack Engineers in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, K8's, Terraform, Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Nodejs and React.
• Exposure to ensuring successful delivery of global, large-scale volume products which consume billions of 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.
• Weekly team lunches.
• Enjoy a bustling office first culture, with flexible start and finish times.

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.