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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