Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Skillz

<h3 id="About-the-job" data-renderer-start-pos="139"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About the job</strong></span></h3> <p data-renderer-start-pos="154"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career!</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="245"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="715"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft,&nbsp;<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189eyh40 _1il9buyh _19lcevot _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">EA</span></span></span>, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte,&nbsp;<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189eyh40 _1il9buyh _19lcevot _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">EY</span></span></span>, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!</span></p> <h3 style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience:</span></h3> <h3 id="Experience:" data-renderer-start-pos="8334"></h3> <p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions and maintain its high level of quality software</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop industry-leading technology to enable competitions, tournaments, and social features for players, spectators, and streamers worldwide.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consistently drives very high-impact projects to completion that include components required by teams across the organization.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with teammates who care about building great products as much as you do</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Role Requirement</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/ similar field or equivalent work experience.</li> <li>5+ years of professional work experience in one or more programming languages: Golang, Go, Java, or C++.</li> <li>Strong experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, caching mechanisms, and relational databases.</li> <li>Proficient in working with Cloud Providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar containers</li> <li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professional Software Engineering experience with a background in object-oriented programming and cloud service, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience designing and optimising MySQL or other RDBMS databases and NoSQL technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience balancing or</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> correcting technology debt while continuously delivering value to customers.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrates responsibility for the quality of your team's work while nurturing this same value in their team.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outstanding knowledge of public cloud providers and emerging service architectures.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Professional experience with game development</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><strong>Location: Table Space Towers, 4th Cross Rd, Kaveri Nagar, Krishnarajapuram, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048</strong></span></p> <h3 style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Why Skillz ?<br></span></h3> <ul class="ak-ul" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1156"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value, obsess over our product, and make a difference in the world.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2419"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies,&nbsp;<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189eyh40 _1il9buyh _19lcevot _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">CNBC</span></span></span>'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.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2718"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup, and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling, and that also pertains to your growth.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5798"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uptd8zrFsLU" width="560" height="314"></iframe></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5798"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCdFJpn3YZA" width="560" height="314"></iframe></p> <div> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><strong>Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!</strong></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. We look forward to having you on board!</span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">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<em>.</em></span></p> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p></div>