Lead Software Engineer, Mobile SDK

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry, by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The Skillz platform empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, with the goal of building the home of competition for all.Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC's Disruptor 50, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. www.skillz.com

Building Our SDK

Our team delivers engaging, innovative, and exciting game play to thousands of developers and millions of players via our Mobile SDK. We believe our platform is the future of competitive gaming, and we do everything in our power to make that future a reality.

We spend most of our time working in a React Native tech stack, but as an SDK we dive deep into native iOS and Android development too. As Lead SDK Engineer for our Achievements team, not only will you work with all of the systems that power player achievement and growth on the Skillz platform, but you will also own and lead technical direction for our Mobile SDK as a whole

For player Achievements, you'll own front-end features such as Leagues, Player Levels, Trophies, and more. As the lead, you'll also own our most powerful native technologies as well, including video streaming, real-time chat, over-the-air deployments, our CI/CD platform, and modularizing our code bases to share across a wide variety of products at Skillz.

Producing a cross platform SDK is a hard thing to do. Our team is excited by these challenges, and takes them head-on. We take pride in being able to plan, estimate, and deliver complex tasks on time, and consider our work a reflection of ourselves.

Does this sound exciting? Do you want to push yourself to new heights, and lead a team of excited passionate Mobile engineers? If you're bored when you're not being challenged, then we want to meet you!

What you'll do:

• Play an integral role in building the future of Mobile eSports!
• Lead a team of engineers, driving career growth, mentorship, onboarding, and hiring.
• Become an expert and mentor in our fully cross platform iOS/Android development environment.
• Collaborate with teammates who care about building phenomenal products as much as you do.
• Take responsibility for estimating, planning, implementing, and deploying large features and releases, with the help of your teammates.
• Build exciting new features for our world-class multiplayer platform enabling competitions, tournaments and social features for players, spectators and streamers around the world.
• Work with a variety of powerful front end technologies and languages, on multiple mobile platforms, including video streaming, player chat, React Native, real time game play.
• Deploy continuously-integrated over-the-air updates containing all the amazing work you've built to thousands of games and millions of players, instantly.
• Cultivate our diverse player base, currently over 18 million players, more than half of which are women.

Your Skillz:

• 8 years of mobile development experience in iOS or Android, using Java, Swift, Kotlin, or Objective-C
• 10 years of experience in a Software Engineering career, with 4 years of experience leading 6 person teams.
• 4 years of experience in React Native Mobile development environment, or equivalent, via cross-platform development in either web or mobile technologies.
• Experience planning, implementing and deploying large team projects in a fast-paced environment, on time, within estimates, while delivering measurable business impact.
• Familiarity framework, SDK, or game development platforms such as Unity are all a plus, but not required.

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, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .