Easygo aiming to be the “best engineering organisation in the world”
Stake and Kick parent firm on talent hunt in Melbourne with lucrative bonuses and salaries on offer to attract staff from external sectors
Easygo, the company behind crypto casino giant Stake and streaming platform Kick, is offering tech talent up to A$100,000 (£52,440) in sign-on bonuses in Australia.
According to a segment on 9News Australia, the business is pushing ahead in the talent war with salaries around 20% above market average for roles at its Melbourne headquarters.
The business has already moved for new staff from the likes of graphic design platform Canva and software company Atlassian as it looks to continue to ramp up operations.
The Melbourne hub boasts daily catered breakfast, onsite baristas and weekly massages as perks aimed to entice the tech workforce in Victoria to join the group.
Speaking to the news site, Easygo chief technology officer David Lemphers confirmed the business was now sitting at around 350 staff compared to four people in 2016.
Lemphers, who joined the group in September 2023 and counts spells with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services on his CV, is also bullish on the future of Easygo.
He said: “It’s our vision to be the best engineering organisation in the world.”
The ramping up of talent in Australia comes after Stake opened a new hub in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, after acquiring Betfair’s business in the market last year.
The firm is looking to add more than 50 staff across Latin America by the end of the year after receiving a licence through to 2025.
Plans are also in the offing to expand into Peru with a licence application in the pipeline, while market-access deals have already been penned in Mexico and Paraguay.
Elsewhere, Easygo founders Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani have increased their shareholding in PointsBet above the 5% threshold.