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About the job:
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!
What You’ll Own:
As the complexity of our SDK grows—across expanding product lines, multi-platform support, and increasing real-time demands—we need a highly experienced technical leader to architect, guide, and future-proof our engineering efforts across domains.
The Principal Software Engineer - FE, is expected to do the following
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Strategic Technical Leadership: Lead the design and evolution of the frontend architecture for our Native(Android and IOS), Web and React Native-based products, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
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Elevate the React Native SDK Experience: Own the development and continuous improvement of our Native components and React Native SDK for third-party game developers, enabling seamless integration with the Skillz platform.
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Mentorship & Talent Development: They will mentor lead, senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall technical bar and creating a culture of engineering excellence in frontend.
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Deliver Exceptional User Experiences: Apply deep expertise in performance optimisation, accessibility, responsiveness, and user interaction design to elevate the overall product experience.
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Support Business Growth and Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools that advance our competitive advantage while balancing risk, cost, and engineering velocity.
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Accelerating Innovation: Their presence reduces technical risk for new initiatives and helps compress time to market by identifying reusable patterns and common frameworks.
What You Bring:
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At least 12+ years of professional experience in frontend engineering with modern JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one major framework (React, Vue, or Angular); depth in React strongly preferred.
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Proven experience building and shipping consumer-facing mobile experiences — either via React Native / native (iOS/Android) or web clients embedded in mobile game flows.
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Deep expertise in client-side performance engineering: rendering optimisation, state management at scale, bundle size discipline, and low-latency real-time UI (WebSockets / event-driven updates).
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Deep expertise in client-side performance engineering: rendering optimisation, state management at scale, bundle size discipline, and low-latency real-time UI (WebSockets / event-driven updates).
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Experience in the Gaming Industry (ideally), including familiarity with game clients, engines (e.g., Unity), or SDK integration—alternatively, a genuine passion for building polished, high-engagement interfaces for games.
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Strong experience with component architecture, design systems, cross-platform consistency, and integrating against distributed, multi-tiered backend services.
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field of study, or equivalent industry experience.
- Able to work in-office 3 days a week in Bangalore, India.
Why Skillz ?
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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.
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