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Lead Software Engineer, Developer-April 2024
Seattle
Apr 17, 2025
ABOUT SKILLZ
We are the leading mobile games platform that connects players around the world in fun and fair competition.
51 - 200 employees
Entertainment & Gaming
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About Lead Software Engineer, Developer

  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, with the goal of building 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 Lead Software Engineer, Developer Product 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:

  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 Full Stack Software Engineering Experience (8+ years) with a background in object-oriented programming and experience with cloud computing with AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI and multi-geo architectures scalable to billions of users Experience building a Platform that caters to developers. 4+ years of experience in React development environment, or equivalent, via cross-platform development in either web or mobile technologies. 5+ years of experience in backend development with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes. Experience designing and optimizing MySQL or other RDBMS databases as well as NoSQL technologies. 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 with excellent stakeholder management and mentoring skills. 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. #L1-N1 #LI-Onsite

  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.

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