Overview

At PrizePicks, we are changing the game in daily fantasy sports. We are a passionate team of innovators dedicated to creating a best-in-class experience for our members. Our engineering team builds and scales the platform that powers our explosive growth — from real-time contest engines to the services that handle millions of daily transactions. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Checkout & Gameplay team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Ruby on Rails to join our Checkout & Gameplay team. In this role, you will design, build, and own critical Rails-based backend services that power PrizePicks’ core platform, including our checkout, game types, and validation services. You will tackle high-scope, complex technical problems, define the technical path from product idea to production, and mentor engineers across your team and the organization. This is a role for someone who thrives on solving hard backend problems and wants to have a direct impact on a product used by millions.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build backend services: Architect and implement Rails-based services that are performant, scalable, and reliable, supporting high-throughput workloads and complex business logic.
• Own technical delivery: Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features end-to-end — from product requirements through deployment and monitoring.
• Drive system reliability: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve the resilience of backend systems under load.
• Define technical direction: Propose and drive architectural decisions for your team’s services, evaluating tradeoffs and communicating recommendations clearly.
• Mentor and elevate: Provide hands-on mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III on your team and in the organization through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Improve engineering practices: Define, advocate for, and improve best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment for your team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other engineering teams to translate product goals into well-scoped technical solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements.

What You Have

Experience:

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building production Ruby on Rails applications
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment
• Experience designing and operating backend systems that handle significant scale and complexity

Technical Skills:

• Expert-level Ruby on Rails proficiency — you understand the framework deeply, write idiomatic Ruby, and know when to leverage or work around Rails conventions
• Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning at scale
• Solid understanding of API design — RESTful services, serialization strategies, and versioning
• Experience with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar) and asynchronous workflows
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Understanding of observabilitE-26039y practices — logging, metrics, tracing
• Working knowledge of Go — our backend includes significant Go services, and cross-stack capability is valued at this level

Working Style:

• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
• Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization
• Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review
• Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate team productivity

Where You’ll Live

• This a remote position anywhere in the US is fine. #LI-REMOTE

Working at PrizePicks:

The typical salary range for this position is $170,000 to $185,000 At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. 

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting. 

Date Posted: March 02, 2026

First Extension: April 2, 2026

Second Extension: May  2, 2026

Overview

At PrizePicks, we are changing the game in daily fantasy sports. We are a passionate team of innovators dedicated to creating a best-in-class experience for our members. Our engineering team builds and scales the platform that powers our explosive growth — from our consumer-facing mobile app to the services that handle millions of daily transactions. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Overall Game Experience (OGX) team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in TypeScript and React Native to join our Overall Game Experience team. In this role, you will design, build, and own critical features within PrizePicks’ React Native mobile application — including developer experience and tooling, deployment pipelines and CI/CD workflows, large-scale refactors, and overall app health and performance. You will tackle high-scope, complex technical problems, define the technical path from product idea to production, and mentor engineers across your team and the organization. This is a role for someone who thrives on crafting exceptional mobile experiences and wants to have a direct impact on a product used by millions.

What You’ll Do

• Own technical direction: Set and evolve the technical standards, architecture, and best practices for your team’s mobile features, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the app.
• Lead the hardest problems: Own the design and delivery of the team’s most complex, highest-scope projects — the ones that require deep technical judgment and cross-system thinking.
• Drive team efficiency: Identify and implement improvements to developer tooling, build pipelines, and development workflows that enable the entire team to iterate faster and ship with more confidence.
• Establish engineering practices: Define and enforce standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment across the team.
• Mentor all engineers: Provide mentorship to engineers at every level on the team, shaping technical growth, raising the quality bar, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaborate at the organizational level: Work with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and other Staff/Principal engineers to align technical strategy with business objectives.
• Own cross-stack integration: Ensure the mobile app integrates effectively with backend services (Go and Rails), driving consistency in API contracts and data flows across the platform.
• Participate in on-call rotation: Own systemic reliability improvements and lead incident response for the most critical production issues.

What You Have

Experience:

• 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise building production React Native applications at scale
• Proven track record of owning multiple complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a team
• Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle at scale — architecture, build systems, deployment pipelines, and post-release monitoring
• Experience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users
• History of elevating engineering teams through mentorship, standards-setting, and technical leadership

Technical Skills:

• Mastery-level TypeScript proficiency — you are a reference point for TypeScript best practices, patterns, and type system usage
• Deep React Native expertise — you have solved hard problems around performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistency
• Expert experience with Expo and its ecosystem, monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces), and mobile build/release infrastructure
• Strong understanding of mobile testing strategies at scale — Jest, Maestro for E2E testing, and quality automation
• Proficiency with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — automated builds, OTA updates, staged rollouts, app store pipelines
• Understanding of backend API patterns — you can read, reason about, and influence API design across Go and Rails services

Working Style:

• Operates with full autonomy — you define your own work and the work of the team based on what matters most
• Exceptional communicator who can represent technical strategy to engineering leadership and non-technical stakeholders
• Experienced in fully remote engineering organizations
• Comfortable making high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the full development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review
• Vision for how AI tooling and agentic coding practices can accelerate team productivity and improve engineering outcomes

Where You’ll Live

While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote

Working at PrizePicks:

The typical salary range for this position is $195,000 to $200,000 At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. 

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting. 

Date Posted: April 28, 2026

First Extension: May 28, 2026

Second Extension: June 27, 2026