Software Engineer III (Ruby on Rails)

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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?&nbsp;</span></p></div><h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Overview</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 Senior Software Engineer to join our Social Experience team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Job Summary</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking a Software Engineer III with strong Ruby on Rails expertise to join our Social Experience team. In this role, you will own feature development within Rails-based backend services that power PrizePicks’ core platform — including feeds, and profiles. 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.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">What You’ll Do</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Own feature development</strong>: Take ownership of features end-to-end — from technical design through delivery — breaking complex projects into well-scoped, deliverable pieces.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Write high-quality code</strong>: Produce Ruby code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the codebase.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Contribute to architecture</strong>: Participate in team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, service boundaries, API design, and background processing patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Improve quality proactively</strong>: Identify opportunities to improve code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience — and act on them.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Guide junior engineers</strong>: Provide technical guidance to Software Engineers I and II through thorough code reviews, pairing sessions, and design feedback.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Collaborate cross-functionally</strong>: Work with Product, Design, and QA to validate technical decisions and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Participate in on-call rotation</strong>: Take increasing ownership of incident response, contributing to root cause analysis and systemic improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Build team knowledge</strong>: Document technical decisions, data models, and service patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">What You Have</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Experience:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Ruby on Rails applications</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exposure to large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems — you understand the challenges of building software that serves millions of users in real time</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Skills:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails — you understand the framework deeply and write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong PostgreSQL skills — schema design, query optimization, migrations, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience designing and building RESTful APIs within Rails</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solid testing practices — RSpec or Minitest, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar)</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Working Style:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Autonomous — you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a well-defined solution</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Comfortable providing and receiving direct technical feedback</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong written communicator, especially important in a fully remote environment</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Able to balance deep technical work with collaborative design and planning</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">What Makes You Stand Out</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, planning, and scoping work</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with agentic coding tools and AI-augmented development workflows</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prior experience working in a remote engineering organization</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience contributing to social or relationship-driven systems (feeds, follows, reactions, activity streams)</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience implementing stat-driven profile features (aggregations, counters, derived metrics) in production systems</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Working knowledge of graph-shaped data modeling concepts (user relationships, fan-out patterns, denormalization tradeoffs)</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience supporting experimentation in social surfaces (feature flags, A/B tests, ranking iterations)</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Where You’ll Live</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This a remote position anywhere in the US is fine. </span></span>#LI-REMOTE</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Working at PrizePicks:</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The typical salary range for this position is $170,000 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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Date Posted: May 11, 2026</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First Extension: June 12, 2026</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Second Extension: July 12, 2026</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><h1><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Benefits you’ll receive:</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company-subsidized medical, dental, &amp; vision plans&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">401(k) plan with company match</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annual bonus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company-wide in-person events and team outings</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lifestyle enhancement program</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company equipment provided (Windows &amp; Mac options)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.&nbsp; We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.&nbsp; All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.</span></em></span></p></div>