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Engineering Manager, Full Stack

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $68 billion in 2019 to $150 billion in 2025.

As the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build 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, and distributes millions in prizes each month.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

About The Job:

Come help grow and continue to level up a high performing Full Stack team. We are creating a first in class Portal for all the developers who integrate games onto the Skillz platform to be able to edit their integration, see metrics, and interact with their players. This team is ready to take their responsibilities to the next level with your help as they start to create player facing services that tightly integrate with the developer portal features being added every quarter.

What you'll do:

• You will be responsible for leading a team of top-talent engineers to build and deliver highly available, scalable and secure por
• Develop and track detailed schedules, dependencies and critical paths
• Effectively collaborate with all project stakeholders i.e. Product Management and Mobile Client Engineers
• Clearly communicate with upper management any risk areas; come up with risk mitigation plans
• Encourage and drive initiatives which promote innovation and technical excellence
• Hire, retain, and develop the careers of the engineers on your team
• Coach and motivate your team to ensure high productivity and teamwork, and help each individual achieve their potential
• Interface with other internal teams to prioritize features and functionality based on the resources available and business priorities
• Conduct periodic on call duties as needed on a regular scheme basis

Your Skillz:

• Bachelor’s or Master degree (preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience in software industry
• 3+ years of experience managing and growing a high-performing engineering team
• Excellent people management skills - communication, teamwork, and leadership
• Ability to coach and motivate team members for their ongoing career growth
• Proven success leading projects in fast-paced, growing-organization environment
• Strong cross-functional organizational skills
• Fluent in one or more of: Java, Go, C++ or Ruby
• Deep (hands-on) experience in containerization, Kubernetes, cloud services frameworks, design and develop successful large scale distributed systems on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in operations, include running and maintaining software, operating a large public cloud deployment, creating and triaging alerts around the health and security
• Designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

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 .