Verasity is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join PrizePicks, the fastest growing sports company in North America, as a Software Engineer and contribute to developing, maintaining, and testing software within the PrizePicks ecosystem. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Software Engineers to solve product challenges and technical challenges to achieve desired business outcomes.

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

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

Benefits

• Break room with ping pong, endless snacks and in-office lunch once a week
• Unlimited PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 week min required!)
• 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 & stock options
• Wellness program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunity for growth and career development