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Engineering Manager building Rails and Go backend systems for PrizePicks’ daily fantasy sports platform. Leading service evolution, reliability, technical delivery, and engineering mentorship.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems, primarily in Rails and Go
- Identify and extract well-scoped capabilities from existing Rails systems, designing clear interfaces and incremental migration paths
- Design reliable data flows between backend services and BigQuery and Snowflake warehouses
- 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
- Partner with Product, Design, QA, Data, Platform, and engineers across domains to coordinate dependencies and resolve ambiguity
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve backend resilience
- Propose and drive architectural decisions for team services
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and technical guidance
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, deployment, and operational ownership
- Participate in the on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
Requirements:
- 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
- Expert-level Ruby on Rails proficiency
- Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning at scale
- Solid understanding of API design, including 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, including logging, metrics, and tracing
- Working knowledge of Go
- Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; PrizePicks is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa
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
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