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 real-time contest engines to the services that handle millions of daily transactions. We are looking for a Software Engineer III to join our Board, Discovery & Live team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Software Engineer III with strong Go expertise to join our Board, Discovery & Live team. In this role, you will own feature development within Go-based services that power PrizePicks’ core platform, including the “shopping”, search, and live experiences. 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. This is a role for someone who can break down hard problems, deliver high-quality solutions, and start having influence beyond their own code.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You Have

Experience:

• 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

Technical Skills:

• 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

Working Style:

• Autonomous — you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a well-defined solution
• Comforta