Software Engineer III, Ruby on Rails

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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

• Own feature development: Take ownership of features end-to-end — from technical design through delivery — breaking complex projects into well-scoped, deliverable pieces. • Write high-quality code: Produce Ruby code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the codebase. • Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, service boundaries, API design, and background processing patterns. • Improve quality proactively: Identify opportunities to improve code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience — and act on them. • Guide junior engineers: Provide technical guidance to Software Engineers I and II through thorough code reviews, pairing sessions, and design feedback. • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Product, Design, and QA to validate technical decisions and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation. • Participate in on-call rotation: Take increasing ownership of incident response, contributing to root cause analysis and systemic improvements. • Build team knowledge: Document technical decisions, data models, and service patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Ruby on Rails applications • History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes • Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans • Exposure to large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems — you understand the challenges of building software that serves millions of users in real time • Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails — you understand the framework deeply and write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code • Strong PostgreSQL skills — schema design, query optimization, migrations, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs within Rails • Solid testing practices — RSpec or Minitest, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies • Familiarity with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar) • Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows • Autonomous — you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a well-defined solution • Comfortable providing and receiving direct technical feedback • Strong written communicator, especially important in a fully remote environment • Able to balance deep technical work with collaborative design and 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