About the job

About PlayVS

The fastest-growing High School and Collegiate sport in America isn’t basketball or football—it’s esports—and PlayVS is the official platform for High School and Collegiate esports. We offer an incredible, full-stack esport platform—game integrations, team building tools, leagues, tournaments, and schedules—and our software products tie everything together into a cohesive experience.

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Platforms team. You will be responsible for ensuring all services are built, maintained, and operated in a reliable and scalable way. You will be part of the successful delivery of new features and services, as well as the day-to-day successful operation of existing services.

Here's What You'll Get To Do

• Write software layers, scripts, deployment frameworks, tracers, monitors, self-healing/auto remediation tools and automate the processes
• Diagnose, and debug large-scale distributed systems in production
• Help our customers have an awesome experience with our products
• Contribute to design documents, code reviews, and other technical discussions

Here's What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of product development experience
• Experience in designing, analyzing and solving large-scale distributed systems
• Thorough understanding of node.js and its core principles
• Experience in JavaScript or TypeScript
• Good mix of software and system engineering skills
• Strong debugging and optimization skills, especially with regard to memory management, data stores, and profiling
• Desire to learn and apply machine learning and data mining techniques
• Committed desire to understand our customers
• Possess a growth mindset: Live and breathe experimentation, data analysis, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact
• Fluent verbal and written communication skills

Here’s What Is Nice To Have

• BS/MS in Computer Science or other technical field
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience working with big data platforms and AWS technologies
• Familiarity with machine learning and statistical modeling tools