Senior Front End Engineer

Summary

Join PrizePicks, a rapidly growing sports company, as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of software within our Daily Fantasy Sports platform. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to overcome product and technical challenges. You will develop product features, conduct testing, and follow best practices. Senior roles involve advocating for improvements, diagnosing performance issues, defining technical paths, and mentoring junior engineers. This is a fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in the US.

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
• 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience
• Expert to mastery experience with: JavaScript
• Expert to mastery experience with: TypeScript
• Expert to mastery experience with: React/JSX
• Expert to mastery experience with: HTML
• Expert to mastery experience with: CSS
• History of owning product challenges and technical challenges in a team to drive a desired business outcome

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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