Senior Rails Engineer - Gamification & Rewards (Remote)

PrizePicks; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

PrizePicks is hiring a Software Engineer III to own Rails-based backend features powering our gamification and loyalty programs. You will deliver complex work end-to-end, mentor junior engineers, and influence system design.

The role emphasizes building scalable services for a fast-growing platform in a remote-friendly setting. We value deep Ruby on Rails expertise, PostgreSQL proficiency, and experience with distributed systems handling millions of users.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience delivering complex features within a software team.
• Ability to break down ambiguous requirements into concrete plans.
• Experience with large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Own feature development end-to-end — from design to delivery.
• Write high-quality Ruby code that is idiomatic and well-tested.
• Contribute to architecture and data modeling discussions.
• Improve code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Testing (RSpec/Minitest)

Background jobs (Sidekiq)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

PrizePicks is hiring a Software Engineer III to own Rails-based backend features powering our gamification and loyalty programs. You will deliver complex work end-to-end, mentor junior engineers, and influence system design.

The role emphasizes building scalable services for a fast-growing platform in a remote-friendly setting. We value deep Ruby on Rails expertise, PostgreSQL proficiency, and experience with distributed systems handling millions of users.