The fastest-growing High School and College 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're looking for an extraordinary Senior Backend Engineer to join our Game Services team. Our Game Services team helps scale competition on the PlayVS platform. This team works with leading game publishers to provide robust esports integrations for high school, college, and youth league teams. This team also leverages data insights to power scheduling, stats, and team pairings.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on this team, you'll be responsible for designing and building services to take our competitive esports platform to the next level.

If you’re interested in making an impact and like solving complex problems, we want to hear from you!

*Design scalable services using modern cloud infrastructure (AWS)

*Work across product and engineering teams to build new platform capabilities

*Write proposals and specifications for technical solutions

*Identify bottlenecks and optimize code for performance

*Write, audit, and improve our test coverage

*5+ years of backend development experience

*3+ years of experience implementing and deploying microservices in a cloud environment

*Experience programming in Typescript (or other strongly-typed language)

*A proven track record of delivering scalable, optimized solutions 

*Team player who is able to receive feedback and challenge assumptions

*Able to provide hands-on support when required to troubleshoot critical issues

*Experience working in a dynamic, execution-driven environment

*Committed desire to understand our customers

*Possess a growth mindset: Live and breathe experimentation, data analysis, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact

*Good verbal and written communication skills

*BS/MS in Computer Science or other technical field

*Cloud certification (or equivalent experience)

*Experience with Machine Learning

*Experience with Go and gRPC

PlayVS is an equal opportunity employer and is proud to be a majority minority company. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to maintaining an inclusive environment for our customers, employees, and applicants. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

If you have a disability or special need that requires an accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]