Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PrizePicks is a daily fantasy sports platform building scalable technology for real-time contests and transactions. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and own critical Go-based services for the Checkout & Gameplay team, lead complex technical delivery, improve distributed-system reliability, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- **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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails — our backend also includes significant Rails services, and cross-stack fluency is highly valued
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes operators, ArgoCD)
- Experience in high-traffic, real-time systems (sports, gaming, fintech, or adtech)
- Contributions to the Go open-source ecosystem
- 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
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
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