FIRY
VP, Engineering
San Francisco, CA · Vp
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 hours ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsCI/CDData ScienceIncident ResponsePerformance MarketingUnityLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This is an opportunity to shape the future of one of the world's leading competitive mobile gaming platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global engineering organization across Product Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure, and Data, building an organization known for technical excellence, operational discipline, and high-quality execution.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Finance, and executive leadership to shape company strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver impactful customer experiences.
- Champion modern engineering practices including cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability, incident response, security-by-design, and developer productivity to improve engineering velocity and platform reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions that ensure the Skillz platform continues to scale securely and efficiently while supporting new products and evolving business needs.
- Lead execution across a globally distributed engineering organization, proactively identifying delivery risks, removing obstacles, and ensuring successful outcomes for critical initiatives.
- Continuously improve engineering operations, establishing metrics, processes, and best practices that enable teams to deliver with predictability, quality, and speed.
- Proven ability to lead large, globally distributed engineering organizations through periods of growth, transformation, and organizational scale.
- Experience building high-performing engineering cultures that attract, retain, and develop exceptional talent.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering managers or senior engineering leaders at the VP or Senior Director level within a high-growth technology company.
- Gaming industry experience is required, with a genuine passion for gaming and a strong understanding of player experiences.
- Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations supporting consumer-facing products or platforms at significant scale.
- Hands-on background in distributed systems, system architecture, and mobile backend platforms. Experience with real-time systems, payments, fraud prevention, trust and safety, or high-availability platforms is strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience. Experience in a publicly traded or late-stage venture-backed technology company is preferred.
- Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $350,000
- Travel Requirement: Less than 10%
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Nice to have
- Hands-on background in distributed systems, system architecture, and mobile backend platforms.
- Experience with real-time systems, payments, fraud prevention, trust and safety, or high-availability platforms is strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in a publicly traded or late-stage venture-backed technology company is preferred.
Skills
- About Skillz
- Skillz is the competition infrastructure platform that powers real-money, skill-based tournaments inside mobile games.
- Skillz hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide and is revolutionizing the gaming industry.
- 800,000+ daily tournaments. $7.5 billion in lifetime prizes paid to players.
- 90 million registered users.
Compensation
- Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $350,000
Benefits
- As Vice President of Engineering at Skillz, you will define the technical vision and lead the engineering organization responsible for the platform powering millions of competitive gaming experiences.
- Define and execute the long-term technical vision and multi-year engineering roadmap, aligning technology investments with business strategy, product priorities, and company growth objectives.
- Build, mentor, and develop exceptional engineering leaders and teams, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
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