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# Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) at PrizePicks

- **Company:** PrizePicks
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** http://prizepicks.com/position?gh_jid=7990264003

## Job description

At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?

Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

## Overview

At PrizePicks, we are changing the game in daily fantasy sports. We are a passionate team of innovators dedicated to creating a best-in-class experience for our members. Our engineering team builds and scales the platform that powers our explosive growth—from our consumer-facing app to the services that support millions of members. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Social Experience team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.

Job Summary

The Social Experience team builds the backend systems behind profiles, feeds, and other social features that help members create an identity, connect with others, and discover and share activity across PrizePicks.

In this role, you will work across mature Rails systems and a growing set of Go and other purpose-built services. You will evolve existing capabilities, define clear service boundaries, and design new backend systems that can scale with our social experiences.

You will own complex work from technical design through production, translate ambiguous product goals into executable plans, influence technical direction, and elevate the engineers around you. This role is for someone who is comfortable extending a mature Rails codebase while helping shape the services that will support the next generation of social experiences at PrizePicks.

## What You’ll Do

- Design and build backend services: Architect and implement performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems, primarily in Rails and in Go where appropriate, supporting high-throughput workloads, complex business logic, and evolving social experiences.
- Evolve service boundaries: Help identify and extract well-scoped capabilities from existing Rails systems, designing clear interfaces and incremental migration paths that preserve reliability and backward compatibility.
- Connect product and data systems: Design reliable data flows between backend services and warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake, making derived data available without adding latency or reliability risk to member-facing experiences.
- Own technical delivery: Lead complex initiatives from discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and iteration. Break work into executable pieces, clarify sequencing and ownership, and keep risks and dependencies visible.
- Drive cross-team execution: Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, Data, Platform, and engineers across domains to resolve ambiguity, coordinate dependencies, and move shared work forward.
- Drive system reliability: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve the resilience of backend 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 engineers on your team through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and technical guidance.
- Improve engineering practices: Raise the bar for code quality, testing, observability, deployment, and operational ownership.
- Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements.

## What You Have

Experience:

- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building production Ruby on Rails applications
- Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment
- Experience designing and operating backend systems that handle significant scale and complexity
- Experience coordinating technical work across team boundaries and proactively managing dependencies, risks, and changing requirements

Technical Skills:

- Expert-level Ruby on Rails proficiency — you understand the framework deeply, write idiomatic Ruby, and know when to leverage or work around Rails conventions
- Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning at scale
- Solid understanding of API design — RESTful services, serialization strategies, and versioning
- Experience with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar) and asynchronous workflows
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
- Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing
- Working knowledge of Go — our backend includes significant Go services, and cross-stack capability is valued at this level

Working Style:

- You turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, make progress visible, and proactively surface decisions, risks, and dependencies
- You enjoy collaborative problem-solving and are effective at bringing people together, incorporating different perspectives, and building alignment
- You communicate clearly and consistently, translating technical decisions for engineers, partners, and non-technical stakeholders
- You balance deep technical execution with planning, mentorship, reviews, and the broader needs of the team
- You are comfortable operating autonomously in a distributed engineering organization while staying closely connected to teammates and partners

What Makes You Stand Out

- Experience leading the extraction of capabilities from a monolith or evolving systems toward well-defined services
- Experience building social or relationship-driven systems such as feeds, follows, live chat, reactions, activity streams, or recommendations
- Experience designing stat-driven profile systems, including aggregations, rollups, and derived metrics at scale
- Experience building social systems for rapid experimentation through feature flags, ranking experiments, or growth loops
- Experience designing graph-shaped data models and fan-out strategies at scale
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and domains while driving shared initiatives to completion
- 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

Where You’ll Live

While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote

Working at PrizePicks

The typical salary range for this position is $175,000 to $185,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you’ll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process.

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

## Benefits You’ll Receive

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:

- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- 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

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:

- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- 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

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

## About PrizePicks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PrizePicks is America’s #1 daily fantasy sports (DFS) app, allowing users to make real-money predictions on player performances across major sports and culture events.
- **Entity Type**: Private (majority stake acquired by Allwyn International AG in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Founded**: 2015 (founded as SidePrize LLC / Performance Predictions)
- **Founders**: Adam Wexler, Jay Deuskar

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) / Sports Gaming / Entertainment
- **Target Customers**: B2C — sports fans and casual gamers in the U.S. and Canada (available in 46 jurisdictions)
- **Mission**: "To create engaging, shareable prediction games within the sports and culture events fans love."

## Products & Services
- **PrizePicks App (iOS & Android)**: The core product — a skill-based DFS game where users pick "over/under" on player stats (points, rebounds, strikeouts, etc.) across MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA, soccer, esports, and more. Players compete against the numbers, not each other.
- **PrizePicks Arena**: A newer peer-to-peer fantasy sports game mode, launched to expand the social and competitive experience.
- **The Esports Lab**: A dedicated vertical for esports predictions, tapping into the growing gaming and esports audience.
- **Team & Culture Prediction Markets**: Launched in 2025, expanding beyond traditional player props into team outcomes and culture-event predictions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. In 2025, Allwyn International AG acquired a 62.5% stake, implying a significant valuation, though the exact figure is private.
- **Key Metric**: Over 10 million community members; billions paid out in winnings; #1 DFS app in the U.S. by user base.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Allwyn International AG (majority owner); partnerships with the NBA (Preferred Daily Fantasy Partner), Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, Dallas Stars, and Atlanta Hawks.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Acquired by Allwyn International AG (2025) — a major global lottery and gaming operator.
  - New $25M headquarters in Atlanta (top two floors of an office tower), with plans to add 1,000 new jobs.
  - Named the fastest-growing sports company in the U.S. by Inc. 5000 (2022, 2023).
  - Ranked 8th fastest-growing company in North America (Deloitte Technology Fast 500, 2024).
  - Certified as a Great Place to Work (2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover in Pick’em Format**: PrizePicks popularized the simple "over/under" pick’em style, which is now the dominant format in U.S. DFS — far simpler than traditional salary-cap fantasy.
- **Scale & Reach**: Operates in 46 jurisdictions, covering over 60% of the U.S. population, including large markets like Texas, Florida, California, and Georgia (where sports betting is not yet legal).
- **Player-First Policies**: Known for industry-leading responsible gaming features, player-friendly promotions, and transparent terms.
- **Tech & Product Innovation**: Consistently wins awards for product experience (e.g., "Best Product Experience" at the EGR North America Awards, back-to-back).
- **Strong Brand & Community**: 10M+ community members; #1 Free Sports App on the Apple App Store.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Continuing to expand into new U.S. states and potentially international markets via Allwyn’s global network.
- **Product Diversification**: Growing beyond traditional player props into team markets, culture predictions, and peer-to-peer gaming (PrizePicks Arena).
- **Deepening Sports Partnerships**: Extending partnerships with major leagues (NBA, MLB, NHL teams) to drive brand trust and user acquisition.
- **Headcount & Office Growth**: Investing in a massive new Atlanta HQ and hiring 1,000+ new employees across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and IT.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Strong emphasis on "people-first" culture with core values: *Play As A Team, Accept Audibles, Leave It All On The Field, Let It Fly*. Recognized as a Great Place to Work (2025).
- **Work Policy**: Flexible — hybrid model with a flagship Atlanta HQ (West Midtown) and remote options. Remote employees can travel to HQ for team connection.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive salary, bonus program, comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings with company match, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, pet insurance, telemedicine, behavioral health benefits, and family planning support.
- **Office Life**: Atlanta HQ features regular team outings, intramural sports, community service events, weekly Pickleball, catered lunches, and trips to Braves/Hawks games.
- **Growth Trajectory**: High-growth environment (fastest-growing sports company in the U.S.) with massive investment from Allwyn — strong job security and upward mobility.
- **Engineering Culture**: Product-driven, fast-paced, and focused on innovation (peer-to-peer, esports, AI-driven predictions). Engineers work on high-scale consumer apps with millions of users.

## Sources
1. [PrizePicks About Page](https://www.prizepicks.com/about)
2. [PrizePicks Careers Page](https://www.prizepicks.com/careers)
3. [PrizePicks Current Openings](https://www.prizepicks.com/jobs)
4. [PrizePicks Press Release - Great Place to Work 2025](https://www.prizepicks.com/press-news/prizepicks-earns-2025-great-place-to-work-certification)
5. [Crunchbase - PrizePicks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/prizepicks)

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