PrizePicks · 3 hours ago
Senior Back End Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years exp
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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
Qualification
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Required
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
Preferred
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 & stock options
Wellness program
Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
Annual performance reviews with opportunity for growth and career development
Company
PrizePicks
PrizePicks is a Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform that covers sports betting in a wide variety of leagues.
Founded in 2015Atlanta, Georgia, USA
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$0.85MKey Investors
Atlanta UnitedParlay Capital Holdings
2023-03-23Corporate Round· undefined
2021-12-01Series Unknown· undefined
2020-07-08Series Unknown· $0.85M
Leadership Team
Adam Wexler
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Jay Deuskar
Co-Founder and CTO
Recent News
2024-10-24
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