Senior Software Engineer (GO)
$175,000–$185,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Design and build backend services by architecting and implementing Go-based microservices that support real-time, high-throughput workloads for PrizePicks' contest and entry creation systems. Own technical delivery from product requirements through deployment and monitoring, while diagnosing performance bottlenecks and optimizing database queries to improve distributed system resilience. Define architectural decisions and mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing, driving best practices in code quality, testing, and observability. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and QA to translate goals into technical solutions, and participate in on-call rotation to address production incidents.
Required Qualifications
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience
- 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
- Expert-level Go proficiency
- 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
- Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
- Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization
- Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning
- Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
- We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time
Desired Qualifications
- Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes operators, ArgoCD)
- Experience in high-traffic, real-time systems (sports, gaming, fintech, or adtech)
- Contributions to the Go open-source ecosystem
- Experience in the daily fantasy sports or sports betting industry
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the development lifecycle
- Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate team productivity
- We prefer candidates based in Atlanta
- open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S.
- willing to consider remote candidates
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