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Lead Backend Engineer
2 years ago
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.
What you'll do:
- Serve as a Technical Lead contributing to the development efforts of the Server team
- Work on a distributed system throughout its life-cycle - research, design, development, testing, CI / CD
- Responsible for the scalability, availability and performance of production systems for a fast growing user base
- Add exciting new features to our world-class platform enabling competitions, tournaments and social features for players, spectators and streamers around the world
- Mentor, coach and lead team members to improve their weekly contributions and career development
- Collaborate with teammates who care about building great products as much as you do
- Help grow the team by interviewing and onboarding new hires
- Review the work of your project teams and drive to hit project deadlines
Your Skillz:
- Experience in one or more backend languages such as Java, Golang, C++, or C#
- Experience with cloud-based datastore technologies such as RDS, Redis, DynamoDB, and ElasticSearch including design and optimization
- Experience building cloud-native RESTful web services, Springboot is a plus
- Experience with AWS or other cloud provider is a huge plus
- Familiarity with DB ORM (Jooq or Hibernate) and caching frameworks (Caffeine or Guava) is a nice to have
- Ability to troubleshoot, debug, and solve the complex problems that distributed, scalable systems introduce
Type Of Employment:
- Skillz is open to hiring candidates as B2B or as full-time employees
Benefits:
- Receive best in class local benefits including Health and Dental Care, Life Insurance, Sports Cards, Short and Long Term Disability, Retirement Savings, Pre and Post Employment Medicals
Location:
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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