About Skillz:

Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for a booming mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with access to fun and fair competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make esports accessible to anyone, anywhere.

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 20,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host billions of casual esports tournaments for 30 million players worldwide.

Last year, Skillz was 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, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.

What you'll do:

You will be responsible for leading a group of top-talent engineers to build and deliver highly available, scalable cloud services.
Effectively collaborate with all project stakeholders i.e. Product Management and Mobile Client Engineers, resolve conflicts and manage competing priorities, to provide a complete solution.
Drive quarterly team’s OKRs around company goals.
Own the organization structure and its internal processes, define and ensure quality standards.
Grows and develops the competencies and skills of team members, with particular focus on developing managerial talent.
Defines departmental culture and mission.
Mobilizes team(s), establishing the tactical plans and objectives needed to accomplish these goals and ensure they are aligned with company goals and objectives.
Proactively advises business units regarding the development of new services and products that further support and strengthen the capabilities of the business unit.
Partners with and integrates across other areas of the company, resolving conflicts and managing competing priorities, to provide a complete solution.
Encourage and drive initiatives which promote innovation and technical excellence

Your Skillz:

Bachelor’s or Master degree (preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent related experience in software industry
8+ years of experience managing and growing a high-performing engineering team
Excellent people management skills - communication, teamwork, and leadership
Ability to coach and motivate team members for their ongoing career growth
Proven success leading projects in fast-paced, growing-organization environment
Strong cross-functional organizational skills
Experience in containerization, Kubernetes, cloud services frameworks, design and develop successful large scale distributed systems on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience in operations, include running and maintaining software, operating a large public cloud deployment, creating and triaging alerts around the health and security
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status