Senior Software Engineer, Gamification

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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 performant, scalable, and reliable Rails-based backend services supporting high-throughput workloads and complex business logic • Lead technical design and implementation of complex features end-to-end, from product requirements through deployment and monitoring • Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve backend-system resilience under load • Propose and drive architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate recommendations • Mentor Software Engineers I, II, and III through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance • Define and improve engineering practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and engineering teams to translate product goals into technical solutions • Participate in the on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements • Build and own backend services powering customer rewards, incentives, and the loyalty program for PrizePicks’ daily fantasy sports platform

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • High level of familiarity with large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems and event-driven architecture • Expert-level Ruby on Rails proficiency • Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning at scale • Solid understanding of API design, including 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 observability practices, including logging, metrics, and tracing • Working knowledge of Go • Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems • Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization • Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; employment visa sponsorship is unavailable • Atlanta preferred; qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. considered • AI-assisted development tools, greenfield services, event streaming, and Infrastructure as Code are listed as ways to stand out

🏖️ 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