Lead / Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Skillz Inc.

Join Skillz and Level Up Your Career!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide. Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry, providing the ultimate platform for competitive mobile games. By fostering social competition within games, Skillz empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.

At Skillz, we firmly believe that everyone is born with unique skills and deserves to experience an epic win. We understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. That's why we passionately champion game developers and players alike, empowering them to unleash their full potential through the power of competition.

Life @ Skillz

• Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value and make a difference in the world.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your entire family. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more.

• Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.

• Perks: We believe in enhancing your work experience. Enjoy daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, Friday Happy Hours, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, and many more. We also offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

Why Skillz?

• Pioneers of Skill-Based Competition: Skillz is not just any company in the gaming industry; we are the pioneers of skill-based competition, partnered with industry titans like UFC, NFL, T-Mobile, Buzztime, Bowlero, while also hosting renowned events like the Game Developer Conference (GDC). Join us in transforming the way people play games and building the home of competition for all.

• Impact Beyond Gaming: Skillz harnesses the power of its platform to support nonprofit organizations such as the Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, the NAACP, and more. By participating in Skillz tournaments, you can make a difference and contribute to causes you care about.

• Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.

• Talent Magnet: Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. Our team includes experts from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, and more.

The Future of Gaming Awaits!

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books combined, with over 3 billion active gamers playing monthly and over 25 million active developers worldwide. Mobile gaming, in particular, is the fastest-growing segment, projected to reach $300 billion by 2025. At Skillz, you have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this exciting industry and shape its future. 

About the role:

As a Lead Software Engineer at Platform 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 to everyone possible.

What you'll do:

• Master the entire application life-cycle including research, design, development, testing, continuous deployment, and delivery
• 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 around the world
• 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

Qualifications:

• Professional Software Engineering Experience (8+ years) with a background in object-oriented programming and experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others).
• Experience designing and optimizing MySQL or other RDBMS databases as well as Nosql technologies.
• 2+ Years working in Games, mobile, console, or PC.
• Customer/Product focused thinking and understanding. Able to balance between correcting technology debt while still continuously delivering value to customers. Partnership mindset.
• Problem solver who can adapt to changing business needs.
• 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.
• Have the ability to work in a dynamic agile development environment, as members of the team play a role in the entire life cycle of development.
• Understands and believes in our mission of making gaming better and eSports for everyone.
• Be productive, generate​s ​results,​ ​not​ ​work.

Skillz offers competitive compensation packages with a salary, and restricted stock grants. Generous company-paid benefits, time-off, leave, 401k match, etc. Check out our career page for more information. Total compensation starts at $153,000. Actual pay will depend on varying circumstances, including leveling, experience, and location.

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!

Our Perks

Skillz offers competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants. Generous company-paid benefits, time-off, leave, 401k match, etc. Check out our career page for more information.