Skillz

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games, and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The Skillz platform empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide to build the home of competition for all. Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. www.skillz.com

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Skillz, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead the development of complex, multi-disciplinary applications. From large-scale consumer-facing applications to entirely new technologies and products, Skillz’s engineers support and power the platform that makes eSport possible for everyone.

What you'll do:

• Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions and maintain its high level of quality software
• Develop industry-leading technology to enable competitions, tournaments, and social features for players, spectators, and streamers worldwide.
• Consistently drives very high-impact projects to completion that include components required by teams across the organization.
• Collaborate with teammates who care about building great products as much as you do

Role Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ similar field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of professional work experience in one or more programming languages: Golang, Go, Java, or C++.
• Strong experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, caching mechanisms, and relational databases.
• Proficient in working with Cloud Providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar containers
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
• Professional Software Engineering experience with a background in object-oriented programming and cloud service, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience designing and optimizing MySQL or other RDBMS databases and NoSQL technologies.
• Experience balancing or correcting technology debt while continuously delivering value to customers. 
• Demonstrates responsibility for the quality of your team's work while nurturing this same value in their team.
• Outstanding knowledge of public cloud providers and emerging service architectures.

Nice to Have

• Professional experience with game development

Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!

Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. Join our team and be part of the journey. We look forward to having you on board!

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Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.