Senior Back End Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

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Requirements:

• A kind and positive mindset.
• A passion to be better at your craft than the day before.
• A self-motivated and self-managing attitude.
• A sense of urgency to solve problems.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate about technical, and/or organizational problems and propose solutions.
• Ability to concisely communicate with other employees.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
• Ability to work closely with other parts of the organization that may be outside of the Engineering organization.
• Ability to document guides for others in the Engineering organization.
• Comfort working in a fast paced industry where product or technical challenges may appear frequently.
• Comfort working with technical problems that might not always have an obvious solution.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal.
• 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Expert to mastery experience with Ruby on Rails and Postgres.

Responsibilities:

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality.
• Collaborate with team members to solve technical and product challenges.
• Develop product features and technical improvements to the PrizePicks ecosystem.
• Develop unit or end-to-end testing for the PrizePicks ecosystem.
• Follow best practice guidelines for maintainability and style.
• Participate in on-call incident rotations.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Study and learn previous software patterns in the PrizePicks ecosystem.