[Hiring] Software Engineer III @PrizePicks

Role Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer III with strong Ruby on Rails expertise to join our Gamification team. In this role, you will own feature development within Rails-based backend services that power PrizePicks’ core platform — including customer rewards, incentives, and our loyalty program. You will own the delivery of complex work end-to-end, begin guiding junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions that shape your team’s systems.

What You’ll Do

• 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 Ruby code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the codebase.
• Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, service boundaries, API design, and background processing patterns.
• 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, data models, and service patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Ruby on Rails applications.
• History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes.
• Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans.
• Exposure to large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems — you understand the challenges of building software that serves millions of users in real time.

Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails — you understand the framework deeply and write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills — schema design, query optimization, migrations, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs within Rails.
• Solid testing practices — RSpec or Minitest, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Familiarity with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Working Style

• 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.

What Makes You Stand Out

• 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.
• Prior experience with event-driven architecture.

Benefits

• 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.