Engineering Manager

About the role

If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career! Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition. At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move! Why Skillz Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value, obsess over our product, and make a difference in the world. Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your dependents. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more. Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more. Time off: We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions. Las Vegas Headquarters: Skillz strongly believes in a five-day a week, collaborative office environment at our 36,000+ square foot headquarters. Enjoy free breakfast and catered lunches, snacks, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, team bonding events and many more. Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more. Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup, and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling, and that also pertains to your growth. Key Competencies Industry Background: 7-10 years total engineering experience with at least 2 years in a people-management or tech-lead role. Prior experience in online gaming, RMG, or casual gaming platforms is strongly preferred. Social casino experience is not required. Team Building & Scaling: Proven ability to hire, onboard, and ramp engineering teams from scratch (4-5 engineers across FE, BE, and payments). Experience conducting technical interviews, defining leveling frameworks, and building team culture in a fast-growing startup environment. Technical Depth - Web Stack: Hands-on experience with React/Next.js frontend and Node.js backend architectures. Ability to make sound technical decisions on system design, API contracts, database schema, and infrastructure trade-offs (e.g., monolith vs microservices for an early-stage platform). Delivery & Execution: Track record of shipping product features on time in agile environments. Comfortable owning sprint planning, capacity allocation, technical debt management, and release processes. Can balance speed-to-market with code quality. Cross-Functional Leadership: Experience partnering with Product, Design, LiveOps, Analytics, and Fraud/Risk teams to translate roadmap priorities into engineering plans. Ability to push back on scope, negotiate timelines, and communicate technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders. Platform & Infra Ownership: Experience owning platform reliability: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting (Datadog, New Relic), incident response, and on-call rotations. Understanding of PCI compliance, KYC data handling, and security best practices for payment-adjacent systems. Startup Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, context-switching between high-priority initiatives (growth features, fraud infra, payment integrations), and making pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions with limited resources. People Management Expectations Hire, retain, and develop the careers of the engineers on your team. Coach and motivate your team to ensure high productivity and teamwork, and help each