Senior Software Engineer (GO)

PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America, recognized for its leading platform in Daily Fantasy Sports. We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Go to design and build critical services that power our core platform, while also mentoring other engineers and driving technical decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build backend services: Architect and implement Go-based microservices that are performant, scalable, and reliable, supporting real-time and high-throughput workloads
• Own technical delivery: Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features end-to-end — from product requirements through deployment and monitoring
• Drive system reliability: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve the resilience of distributed systems under load
• Define technical direction: Propose and drive architectural decisions for your team’s services, evaluating tradeoffs and communicating recommendations clearly
• Mentor and elevate: Provide hands-on mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III on your team and in the organization through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Improve engineering practices: Define, advocate for, and improve best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment for your team
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other engineering teams to translate product goals into well-scoped technical solutions
• Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building production Go services
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures
• Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including schema design and query optimization
• Expert-level Go proficiency — you write idiomatic, well-tested, production-quality Go code
• Solid understanding of API design (REST, gRPC, or GraphQL)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing
• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
• Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization
• Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning
• Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails — our backend also includes significant Rails services, and cross-stack fluency is highly valued
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes operators, ArgoCD)
• Experience in high-traffic, real-time systems (sports, gaming, fintech, or adtech)
• Contributions to the Go open-source ecosystem
• Experience in the daily fantasy sports or sports betting industry
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review
• Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate team productivity