About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $68 billion in 2019 to $150 billion in 2025.

Skillz is pioneering the competitive mobile gaming experience, leveraging its patented technology to power over two billion esports tournaments a year. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

Integrations Engineer

Skillz is an exciting new way for developers of all shapes and sizes to bring engaging competitive gameplay to their users. Integrations Engineering at Skillz is all about doing everything possible to help make this happen and make it easier and better as we go.

Our feature development time is spent on building new tools, creating new ways for games to interact with Skillz, and researching how best to support new technologies and game development frameworks. As an Integrations team member, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of concepts and languages in the mobile and web development realms, all while helping build the future of eSports.

We work with our partners to build high-quality integrations with the Skillz platform, help troubleshoot their problems, and ensure their games launch and update smoothly. “Investigating a brand new code base, on a mobile technology stack you’ve never seen before, and how it interacts with a massive cross-platform multiplayer platform”, might sound a bit daunting, but at Skillz sometimes that’s just a Tuesday.

What you'll do:

You'll work with our SDK engineering teams in iOS, Unity and Android development, and take ownership of our developer-facing Mobile SDK features.
Work with game development studios both big and small, to help them build world-class eSports experiences.
You'll create open-source example projects, video tutorials and articles for our Developer Console and Knowledge Base, helping foster a healthy developer community.
Working closely with game developers via Zendesk, Chat, and Email, you'll help drive bringing new games online, troubleshoot problems, and educate developers on best practices.
Execute on R&D projects to push forward the Integrations and SDK capabilities of the Skillz platform.
You will implement your own suggestions to make a positive impact on the Skillz ecosystem.
You will work with our publisher relations and engineering teams to drive and improve our developer support process.
As we roll out new technology, you'll be integral in educating developers in how to work best with Skillz.

What you’ll need:

2+ years of experience in a professional engineering role.
Professional experience with iOS or Android, or a strong desire to learn them both.
The communication skills and desire to work with, and help guide, engineering efforts of partner companies.
A strong foundation in an object-oriented language, experience in multiple languages, platforms and technologies is a large plus.
Excellent communication skills, particularly written communication.
Creative self-starter who can take responsibility for making things happen, and enjoys working on very productive, fast-paced teams.
Passionate about your work, driven to succeed and improve the technologies and processes around you.
Experience with game engines like Unity, Corona, and UDK is a huge plus.

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.