Senior Software Engineer (GO)

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 talented and driven Senior Software Engineer to join our Checkout & Gameplay team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Go to join our Checkout & Gameplay team team. In this role, you will design, build, and own critical Go-based services that power PrizePicks’ core platform — including our contest and entry creation services. You will tackle high-scope, complex technical problems, define the technical path from product idea to production, and mentor engineers across your team. This is a role for someone who thrives on solving hard problems in distributed systems and wants to have a direct impact on a product used by millions.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You Have

Experience:

• 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

Technical Skills:

• 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

Working Style:

• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
• Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
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