Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry by hosting billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide. They are looking for a software engineer to help build, develop, and improve their platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience (excluding internships).
- 2+ years of experience building scalable, user-facing web applications using React or similar modern JavaScript frameworks with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- 3+ years of backend development experience using one or more of Ruby, Go, Java, or Node.js, with a solid understanding of API design, database integration, and service-oriented architecture.
- 2+ years of experience working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL).
- Bonus: 2+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS or Kubernetes (K8s), managing and deploying backend services in production.
- Experience in the Gaming Industry (ideally).
- Alternatively - experience with Unity and a passion for building services for games.
Responsibilities
- build, develop, and see your impact
- building scalable, user-facing web applications
- backend development
- API design
- database integration
- service-oriented architecture
- managing and deploying backend services in production
Other
- Able to work in-office 5 days a week in Las Vegas HQ (relocation assistance available for brand new Vegas HQ).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field of study, or equivalent industry experience
