Senior Rails Engineer - Board, Discovery & Live (Remote)

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Annual bonus

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

PrizePicks is looking for a Software Engineer III with strong Ruby on Rails expertise to join our Board, Discovery & Live team. You will own feature delivery end-to-end in Rails-based backend services powering our core platform, including shopping, merchandising, search, and live game experiences.

You will guide junior engineers and shape architectural decisions to scale the system for millions of users. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and QA, participate in on-call, and help drive

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, service boundaries, API design, and background processing patterns.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Testing (RSpec/Minitest)

Background jobs

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

PrizePicks is looking for a Software Engineer III with strong Ruby on Rails expertise to join our Board, Discovery & Live team. You will own feature delivery end-to-end in Rails-based backend services powering our core platform, including shopping, merchandising, search, and live game experiences.

You will guide junior engineers and shape architectural decisions to scale the system for millions of users. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and QA, participate in on-call, and help drive