Get the chrome extension Software Engineer III (Ruby on Rails)
PrizePicks
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?
Software Engineer III (Ruby on Rails)
Atlanta, GA preferred, Remote
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 450 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?
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 Software Engineer III to join our Gamification team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Software Engineer III with strong Ruby on Rails expertise to join our Gamification team. In this role, you will own feature development within Rails-based backend services that power PrizePicks’ core platform — including customer rewards, incentives and our loyalty program. 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.
What You’ll Do
- 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 Ruby code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the codebase.
- Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, service boundaries, API design, and background processing patterns.
- 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, data models, and service patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding.
What You Have
Experience:
- 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Ruby on Rails applications
- History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes
- Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans
- Exposure to large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems — you understand the challenges of building software that serves millions of users in real time
Technical Skills:
- Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails — you understand the framework deeply and write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code
- Strong PostgreSQL skills — schema design, query optimization, migrations, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs within Rails
- Solid testing practices — RSpec or Minitest, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
- Familiarity with background job processing (Sidekiq or similar)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Working Style:
- 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
What Makes You Stand Out
- 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
- Prior experience with event-driven architecture
Where You’ll Live
While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates.
Working at PrizePicks
The typical salary range for this position is $145,000 to $155,000. 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.
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.
Benefits you’ll receive:
In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:
- 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
You 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.
PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Software Craftsperson/ROR - Staff
Incubyte
This is a remote position.
Experience Level
TheStaff Software Craftspersonis a technical leadership role equivalent to anSDE-4/SDE-5. We are looking for seasoned engineers with8+ yearsof hands-on experience who have transitioned from building great software to shaping the engineering culture and technical strategy of an entire organization.
As a Staff-level crafter, your focus shifts from solving well-defined problems toidentifyingand solving the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges thatimpactour clients and our internal engineering standards.
What You’ll Do as a Software Craftsperson
- Technical Vision & Architecture:Lead the architectural direction for complex, large-scale systems. You will balance the immediate needs of the business with long-term system health, ensuring our solutionsremainsimple, scalable, and resilient.
- Engineering Excellence at Scale:Champion disciplined engineering practices (TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD) across multiple teams. Youdon’tjust follow the bar; you raise it by introducing better patterns and tooling.
- AI Strategy & Mentorship:Drive our AI-native development model. You will experiment with and define how we use AI to accelerate the SDLC, ensuring the team uses these tools to enhance—rather than replace—deep technical judgment.
- Cross-Team Leadership:Act as a force multiplier. You will mentor senior engineers, conduct high-impact code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous learning andcraftsmanship.
- Strategic Client Partnership:Work as a technical consultant for high-stakes client engagements, translating vague business goals into robust technical roadmaps and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
- Systemic Problem Solving:Beyond resolving production issues, youidentify"class-level" problems in our infrastructure or codebase and implement systemic changes toeliminatethem permanently.
Requirements
What We're looking for
- 8+ years of experiencebuilding andmaintaininghigh-scale production systems.
- Mastery of Fundamentals:Expert-level understanding of object-oriented design, functional programming, and system architecture (Microservices, Event-driven, etc.).
- Polyglot Mindset:HighproficiencyinRuby on RailsandReact/Angular, with the proven ability to architect solutions across multiple tech stacks (Python, Go, etc.) as needed.
- Influence without Authority:Demonstratedability to lead through persuasion and technical excellence rather than just hierarchy.
- Advanced AI Collaboration:Deep experience integrating AI into a professional workflow to explore architecture, automate toil, and peer-review logic.
- Proven Ownership:A track recordof taking a project from a nebulous idea to a successful,maintainedproduction system.
- Communication:Exceptional ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Clear thinking and strong problem-solving ability, with the capacity to break down complex problems into simple, well-structured solutions.
- A strong sense of ownership — you take responsibility for outcomes, care deeply about quality, and are not comfortable shipping work that does not meet your standards
Benefits
Life atIncubyte
We are a remote-first company with structured flexibility. Teams commit to shared rhythms during core hours, ensuring smooth collaboration while maintaining autonomy. Twice a year, we come together in person for a co-working sprint and once a year for a retreat - with all travel expenses covered.
Our environment is built for crafters: pairing, refactoring, experimenting with AI, and pushing the boundaries of software excellence. We are all lifelong learners, and our work is our passion.
Perks
- Dedicated learning & development budget.
- Sponsorship for conference talks.
- Comprehensive medical & term insurance.
- Employee-friendly leave policies.
- Home Office fund
- Medical Insurance
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