Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America, recognized for its leadership in Daily Fantasy Sports. The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with expertise in TypeScript and React Native to design and build critical features for their mobile application, while also mentoring engineers and driving technical standards.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
PrizePicks is a mobile app platform that covers sports betting of leagues. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://prizepicks.com.