Senior Back End Engineer

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

PrizePicks seeks a Senior Back End Engineer to develop, maintain, and test software within their ecosystem. Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers, this role involves advocating for product quality, security, and performance improvements. Responsibilities include developing features, conducting unit/end-to-end testing, following best practices, participating in on-call rotations and code reviews. Senior responsibilities include cross-team advocacy, diagnosing performance issues, defining best practices, defining technical paths from product ideas to deployment, mentoring junior engineers, and independently shipping features and improvements. The ideal candidate will possess a positive mindset, self-motivation, strong communication skills, and comfort working in a fast-paced remote environment.
Must have:
  • 5-8 years relevant experience
  • Ruby on Rails expertise
  • Postgres expertise
  • Ownership of product/technical challenges
  • Excellent communication
  • Positive and collaborative attitude
Good to have:
  • Startup experience
  • Remote team experience
  • DFS industry passion
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Shell scripting experience
Perks:
  • Company-subsidized medical/dental/vision
  • 401(k) match
  • Bi-annual bonus
  • Flexible PTO
  • Generous parental leave
  • Workplace flexibility
  • Company events
  • Wellness program
  • Company equipment

Job Details

At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 450 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? 

Overview

Software Engineers at PrizePicks work to develop, maintain and test software within the PrizePicks ecosystem. Software Engineers work closely with Product Managers, Designers and other Software Engineers to solve product challenges and technical challenges to achieve desired business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality
  • Collaborate with team members to solve technical and product challenges
  • Develop product features and technical improvements to the PrizePicks ecosystem
  • Develop unit or end-to-end testing for the PrizePicks ecosystem
  • Follow best practice guidelines for maintainability and style
  • Participate in on-call incident rotations
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Studies and learns previous software patterns in the PrizePicks ecosystem

Senior Responsibilities

  • Advocate for improvements that have an impact across your team
  • Collaborate with the team on larger projects
  • Diagnose and fix performance and optimization problems
  • Define, advocate and improve best practices for maintainability and style
  • Define a technical path from product idea to deployment
  • Provide mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III across your team
  • Ship features and improvements to the PrizePicks ecosystem with little to no guidance from across the team
  • Solve product challenges and technical problems of high scope and complexity

Requirements

  • A kind and positive mindset
  • A passion to be better at your craft than the day before
  • A self-motivated and self-managing attitude
  • A sense of urgency to solve problems
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate about technical, and/or organizational problems and propose solutions
  • Ability to concisely communicate with other employees
  • Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
  • Ability to work closely with other parts of the organization that may be outside of the Engineering organization
  • Ability to document guides for others in the Engineering organization
  • Comfort working in a fast paced industry where product or technical challenges may appear frequently
  • Comfort working with technical problems that might not always have an obvious solution
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal

Qualifications

  • 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience
  • Expert to mastery experience with:
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Postgres
  • History of owning product challenges and technical challenges in a team to drive a desired business outcome

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with in tech startups
  • Experience working with a remote team
  • Passionate about the daily fantasy industry
  • Any experience in the following technologies:
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Shell scripting
    • Linux or similar UNIX type operating systems

Where you’ll live:

  • This is a remote position so anywhere in the U.S.

Benefits you’ll receive: 

In addition to your great compensation package, company subsidized medical/dental/vision coverage plans and matching 401(k), we’ll shower you with perks including: 

  • Break room with ping pong, endless snacks and in-office lunch once a week
  • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2- weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
  • Modern work schedule focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
  • Workplace flexibility
  • Company and team outings, we encourage a tight-knit workplace
  • Generous Maternity AND Paternity leave (16 weeks!)
  • Annual bonus
  • Wellness program
  • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
  • Annual performance reviews with opportunity for growth and career development

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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
  • Bi-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. 

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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