What You Have

Experience:

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful production time in both Ruby on Rails and Go
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment
• Experience working across monolith-to-microservices migrations, extracting services, managing dual-write patterns, and maintaining backward compatibility
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems or event-driven architectures

Technical Skills:

• Strong Rails proficiency — you understand the framework deeply, write idiomatic Ruby, and know when to leverage or work around Rails conventions
• Strong Go proficiency — you write idiomatic, well-tested, production-quality Go code
• Solid PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of API design (REST and/or gRPC) and service boundary design
• Experience with asynchronous workflows — background job processing (Sidekiq or similar), message queues, or event streaming
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing

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
• Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning
• Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization

What Makes You Stand Out

• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using Pulsar, Kafka, or similar — our platform relies heavily on async messaging between services
• Experience with NATS request/reply or JetStream patterns
• Familiarity with internal tooling or operator-facing platforms (not just member-facing products)
• Experience in high-traffic, real-time systems — sports, gaming, fintech, or adtech
• Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD)
• Experience in the daily fantasy sports or sports betting industry
• 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

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.

Working at PrizePicks

The typical salary range for this position is $175,000 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.

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:

• 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

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.