About PlayVS
The fastest-growing High School and Collegiate sport in America isn’t basketball or football—it’s esports—and PlayVS is the official platform for High School and Collegiate esports. We offer an incredible, full-stack esport platform—game integrations, team building tools, leagues, tournaments, and schedules—and our software products tie everything together into a cohesive experience.
We are looking for a passionate Engineering Manager, Platform to join our team. You’ll lead a team of platform engineers and site reliability engineers who are building and maintaining complex infrastructure. Among other responsibilities, the Platform Team’s responsibilities include monitoring and enhancing performance observability, creating CI/CD pipeline, and building and maintaining a monitoring system. You will work collaboratively with the rest of the organization while building the best product experience.
Here's What We're Looking For
- Work closely with stakeholders to deliver world-class software
- Develop people through coaching, mentoring and direct feedback
- Take responsibility for your team’s delivery
- Build and maintain tools to enable product teams
- Experience managing teams that builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines
- Oversight of the maintenance to ensure production ready backend systems and frameworks, while focusing on efficiency and optimization
- Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of our products
- Experience managing configuration of AWS
- Attract, onboard and retain top talent
- Help establish best quality practices across the organization
- Champion simple, intelligent, and elegant solutions to problems
Here's What You'll Get To Do
- 3+ years experience managing as a people manager
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Thorough understanding of Site Reliability and Platform Engineering principles
- Familiarity with Node.JS
- Familiarity with Terraform
- Familiarity with Docker
- Familiarity with GraphQL and Apollo
- Experience with AWS (specifically ECS)
- Experience building and delivering successful products.
- Passionate about PlayVS and the problem we are solving
- Committed desire to understand our customers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Possess a growth mindset: Live and breathe experimentation, data analysis, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact