If you’re passionate about esports and video games, you’re going to wish you had us back in high school. We’re the largest competitive gaming organization serving high schools and educational institutions in North America focused on making esports available to every student as a legitimate sport in schools throughout the U.S. We achieve this by making it easy for faculty to offer students the chance to engage in healthy esports competition, surrounded by peers while supervised by teachers. Through organized esports competitions, students are learning to align their commitment to gaming with their success in academics and potential future careers.
We’re on the verge of transforming youth athletics for generations to come. Generation Esports is a technology company at its core, building a platform to service youth competitive esports from young kids to college students. We’re looking for senior engineers to move our engineering resources in-house and take our platform to the next level. Our product roadmap is full of features that can enhance the future of today’s youth through esports and we want passionate engineers to help us build it.
This role will have the opportunity to be our front-end tech lead which gives you the autonomy to recommend your preferred architecture and implementation while helping us build and grow our tech team.
Requirements
Role Responsibilities
- Own the prioritization and execution of the Product Backlog in alignment with the Product Roadmap and Vision, along with inbound requests from internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure that all released code meets or exceeds our quality standards.
- Communicate and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to elicit and analyze requirements.
- Solid teamwork and organizational skills to keep our engineers stocked with enough backlog and our internal stakeholders informed and focused on strategy
- Document Features, User Stories, and Defects to the level of specificity required for the engineering teams to understand what must be built, for whom, why it is valuable, and how it must be tested.
- Support Agile SDLC by participating in Agile ceremonies and promoting Agile principles.
- Forecast and set delivery dates for MVP using Team Capacity and Velocity.
- Own product documentation, including Release Notes, requirements, and new Feature documentation for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist with Test Case and Test Plan design and execution in collaboration with the Development Team(s).
- Mentor Product Associate(s).
- Perform UAT and Post-production testing.
- Perform product demos for internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide support, encouragement, and recognition to the team through words and actions.
- Collaborate with the team to develop and implement product release plans.
- Build strong relationships within the team and throughout the organization.
Qualifications
- At least 3-5 years of hands-on experience in Software Product Development or similar role
- Servant-leadership mindset
- Established knowledge of industry software development methodologies
- Excellent communication skills and high degree of emotional intelligence
- Excellent writing skills
- Like to play video games )
- Bonus Points
- Scrum Certification
- Cross-functional awareness of marketing, sales, support, and implementation practices related to software releases
- Experience with mobile app development
- Familiar with SQL
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Knowledge of the esports industry, as an enthusiast, gamer, or professional
Languages/Technology Competencies
- Angular 11
- JavaScript & Typescript
- HTML & CSS (SCSS)
- Websockets
- Docker (Dev Environment)
- JIRA
Bonus Points
- Cordova
- Electron
Benefits
- Market rate salary
- Healthcare & Dental & Vision
- Stock Options
- 401K
- Snacks & drinks at the office
- Casual work environment
- Play your favorite PC/console games at the office
