Software Engineer III (GO)

PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America, recognized for its leading platform in Daily Fantasy Sports. The Software Engineer III will own feature development within Go-based services that power the core platform, guiding junior engineers and contributing to architectural decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs and proposing solutions grounded in deep understanding of the system
• Own feature development: Take ownership of features end-to-end — from technical design through delivery — breaking complex projects into well-scoped, deliverable pieces
• Write high-quality code: Produce Go code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the code-base
• Improve quality proactively: Identify opportunities to improve code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience — and act on them
• Guide junior engineers: Provide technical guidance to Software Engineers I and II through thorough code reviews, pairing sessions, and design feedback
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Product, Design, and QA to validate technical decisions and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation
• Participate in on-call rotation: Take increasing ownership of incident response, contributing to root cause analysis and systemic improvements
• Build team knowledge: Document technical decisions, system architecture, and patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding
• Performance Ownership: Own high throughput endpoints, their database queries and their caching strategies

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Go services
• History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes
• Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans
• Advanced proficiency in Go — you write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code and understand Go's concurrency model well
• Strong SQL skills — schema design, query optimization, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale
• Experience designing and building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs
• Solid testing practices — unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Autonomous — you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a well-defined solution
• Comfortable providing and receiving direct technical feedback
• Strong written communicator, especially important in a fully remote environment
• Able to balance deep technical work with collaborative design and planning
• Experience with search systems with an emphasis on performance
• Proven track record of engineering high-concurrency, distributed Go services
• Experience with incident response and high-pressure situations
• Experience with tools like, but not limited to, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, planning, and scoping work
• Experience with agentic coding tools and AI-augmented development workflows
• Prior experience working in a remote engineering organization