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? 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 our consumer-facing mobile app to the services that handle millions of daily transactions. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Overall Game Experience (OGX) team and help us continue to build the future of fantasy sports. Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in TypeScript and React Native to join our Overall Game Experience team. In this role, you will design, build, and own critical features within PrizePicks’ React Native mobile application — including developer experience and tooling, deployment pipelines and CI/CD workflows, large-scale refactors, and overall app health and performance. You will tackle high-scope, complex technical problems, define the technical path from product idea to production, and mentor engineers across your team and the organization. This is a role for someone who thrives on crafting exceptional mobile experiences and wants to have a direct impact on a product used by millions. What You’ll Do - Own technical direction: Set and evolve the technical standards, architecture, and best practices for your team’s mobile features, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the app. - Lead the hardest problems: Own the design and delivery of the team’s most complex, highest-scope projects — the ones that require deep technical judgment and cross-system thinking. - Drive team efficiency: Identify and implement improvements to developer tooling, build pipelines, and development workflows that enable the entire team to iterate faster and ship with more confidence. - Establish engineering practices: Define and enforce standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment across the team. - Mentor all engineers: Provide mentorship to engineers at every level on the team, shaping technical growth, raising the quality bar, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. - Collaborate at the organizational level: Work with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and other Staff/Principal engineers to align technical strategy with business objectives. - Own cross-stack integration: Ensure the mobile app integrates effectively with backend services (Go and Rails), driving consistency in API contracts and data flows across the platform. - Participate in on-call rotation: Own systemic reliability improvements and lead incident response for the most critical production issues. What You Have Experience: - 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise building production React Native applications at scale - Proven track record of owning multiple complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a team - Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle at scale — architecture, build systems, deployment pipelines, and post-release monitoring - Experience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users - History of elevating engineering teams through mentorship, standards-setting, and technical leadership Technical Skills: - Mastery-level TypeScript proficiency — you are a reference point for TypeScript best practices, patterns, and type system usage - Deep React Native expertise — you have solved hard problems around performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistency - Expert experience with Expo and its ecosystem, monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces), and mobile build/release infrastructure - Strong understanding of mobile testing strategies at scale — Jest, Maestro for E2E testing, and quality automation - Proficiency with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — automated builds, OTA updates, staged rollouts, app store pipelines - Understanding of backend API patterns — you can read, reason about, and influence API design across Go and Rails services Working Style: - Operates with full autonomy — you define your own work and the work of the team based on what matters most - Exceptional communicator who can represent technical strategy to engineering leadership and non-technical stakeholders - Experienced in fully remote engineering organizations - Comfortable making high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information What Makes You Stand Out - Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the full development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review - Vision for how AI tooling and agentic coding practices can accelerate team productivity and improve engineering outcomes 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. #LI-Remote Working at PrizePicks: The typical salary range for this position is $195,000 to $200,000 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. Date Posted: April 28, 2026 First Extension: May 28, 2026 Second Extension: June 27, 2026 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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