Senior Back End Engineer

Summary

Join PrizePicks, a rapidly growing sports company, as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of our Daily Fantasy Sports platform. Collaborate with a team of talented professionals to solve product and technical challenges, ensuring high-quality software. This remote position offers a flexible work environment and a comprehensive benefits package. You will advocate for improvements in product quality, security, and performance, while working closely with product managers and designers. As a Software Engineer, you will participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and contribute to a positive and collaborative team environment. We offer a competitive compensation package and a supportive culture.

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

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
• 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 coverage plans
• Matching 401(k)
• 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
• 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