# Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About Us: 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! About the Role: As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design, build, and operate the distributed backend services that power real-time gaming experiences. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle

- **Id**: 4155683
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/skillz-senior-software-engineer-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T08:21:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T13:08:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4968
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mobile Games, Esports

## Company

- **Id**: 2195689
- **Name**: Skillz
- **Domain**: skillz.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/skillz-com>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0.286
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 63
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Memcached** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Unity** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T10:35:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 63
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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