Software Engineer III (GO)

Role Overview

Join PrizePicks as a Software Engineer III (Go) on the Board, Discovery & Live team. You’ll build and scale Go-based services that power core platform experiences including shopping, search, and live features.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & design: Participate in team-level architectural decisions; evaluate trade-offs and propose solutions.
• Own feature delivery end-to-end: From technical design through implementation—break complex work into well-scoped deliverables.
• Write high-quality Go: Produce idiomatic, performant, well-tested code.
• Proactively improve quality: Drive improvements in code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Mentor junior engineers: Provide technical guidance to Software Engineers I/II via code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Product, Design, and QA to align implementation with product goals.
• On-call & reliability: Participate in incident response and contribute to root-cause analysis and systemic fixes.
• Document & share knowledge: Capture decisions, architecture, and patterns to strengthen team understanding.
• Performance ownership: Own high-throughput endpoints, including database queries and caching strategies.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience building software (with meaningful time in Go services).
• Proven ability to deliver complex features that drive business outcomes.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Go proficiency, including strong understanding of Go concurrency.
• Strong SQL skills (schema design, query optimization, performance at scale).
• Experience designing/building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs.
• Solid testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Nice-to-Haves

• Increasing ownership of incident response and systemic reliability improvements.
• Strong written communication and ability to provide/receive direct technical feedback.