Senior Software Engineer, Go

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PrizePicks

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201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

Gaming • Sports

PrizePicks is an innovative platform that offers a dynamic and interactive way to engage in daily fantasy sports and esports. Users can make predictions on player performances across various sports, including NFL, NBA, MLB, CFB, and more, with the opportunity to win up to 1000x their entry fee. PrizePicks operates legally in 43 U. S. states, Washington D. C. , and Canada, providing a wide range of betting options, including Pick 'Em and Pick 'Em Arena, where users compete against each other for cash rewards. The company emphasizes user engagement with features such as recurring promos and the Streak game, which is free to play and allows participants to earn by building daily win streaks. PrizePicks ensures secure transactions and fast payouts, enhancing user experience and satisfaction in the sphere of real money sports betting.

📋 Description

• Design and build backend services: Architect and implement Go-based microservices that are performant, scalable, and reliable, supporting real-time and high-throughput workloads. • 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 distributed 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building production Go services • Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment • Experience designing and operating distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures • Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including schema design and query optimization • Expert-level Go proficiency — you write idiomatic, well-tested, production-quality Go code • Solid understanding of API design (REST, gRPC, or GraphQL) • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation • Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans • 401(k) plan with company match • Annual bonus • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!) • Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked • Company-wide in-person events and team outings • Lifestyle enhancement program • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options) • Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development