Software Engineer, Platform San Francisco, LA, or Las Vegas Skillz is on a mission to bring out the best in everyone through competition. Building the future of entertainment, Skillz is accelerating the convergence of sports, video games, and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The company's platform empowers mobile game developers and players with democratized access to fun, fair, and skill-based competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make competition accessible to anyone, anywhere with a mobile device. Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world's 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 13,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host over 800 million tournaments for 18 million players worldwide. Skillz has been recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America. The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, including Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and founders of Great Hill Partners, as well as owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings. 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 a growing mobile-first audience worldwide. The platform enables developers to create multi-million dollar franchises by facilitating social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, aiming to be 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 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 eSports accessible to everyone. What you'll do : Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, maintaining high-quality software Create industry-leading technology to enable competitions, tournaments, and social features for players, spectators, and streamers worldwide Drive high-impact projects to completion that include components required by various teams Collaborate with teammates who care about building great products Qualifications 5+ years of professional software engineering experience 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. Customer and product-focused thinking with the ability to balance technical debt correction and continuous value delivery. Partnership mindset. Problem-solving skills with adaptability to changing business needs. Responsibility for the quality of your team's work, fostering this value within your team. Strong knowledge of public cloud providers and emerging service architectures. Ability to work in a dynamic agile environment, participating in the entire development lifecycle. Alignment with our mission to improve gaming and eSports for everyone. Productivity and results-oriented mindset. Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability.

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