Software Engineer III (GO)

PrizePicks • Atlanta, GA

3h • $145,000 - $155,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with search systems with an emphasis on performance
• Proven track record of engineering high-concurrency, distributed Go services
• Experience with incident response and high-pressure situations
• Experience with tools like, but not limited to, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Docker and Kubernetes
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed