[Remote] Senior Software Engineer (React Native)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America and the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in TypeScript and React Native to design and build critical features for their mobile application, ensuring high performance and exceptional user experiences.


Responsibilities

  • Design and build mobile features: Architect and implement complex features and interaction flows in our React Native app that are performant, accessible, and deliver exceptional user experiences
  • Own technical delivery: Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features end-to-end — from product requirements through deployment and monitoring
  • Drive app performance: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize rendering, reduce bundle size, and improve the overall responsiveness of the mobile app
  • Define technical direction: Propose and drive architectural decisions for your team’s mobile features, evaluating tradeoffs and communicating recommendations clearly
  • Mentor and elevate: Provide hands-on mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III on your team and in the organization through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
  • Improve engineering practices: Define, advocate for, and improve best practices around component architecture, testing, accessibility, and mobile deployment for your team
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other engineering teams to translate product goals into well-scoped technical solutions
  • Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements

Skills

  • 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building production React Native applications
  • Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component mobile features in a team environment
  • Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle — from development through app store submission and post-release monitoring
  • Experience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users
  • Expert-level TypeScript proficiency — you write clean, type-safe, well-tested production code
  • Deep React Native expertise — performance optimization, native module integration, complex animations, and platform-specific considerations
  • Strong experience with Expo and its ecosystem
  • Proficiency with monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces or similar)
  • Solid understanding of mobile testing strategies — Jest for unit/component testing, experience with Maestro for E2E testing
  • Experience with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — build pipelines, OTA updates, app store deployment
  • Understanding of observability in mobile — crash reporting, performance monitoring, analytics integration
  • Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems
  • Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization
  • Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning
  • Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review
  • Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate team productivity
  • Native mobile development experience (Swift/Kotlin) and the ability to bridge native modules when React Native alone isn't enough
  • Experience improving developer experience at scale — build tooling, linting, code generation, or developer workflow automation
  • Hands-on experience with mobile deployment pipelines, EAS Build/Submit, OTA update strategies, and release management
  • Track record of leading or contributing to large-scale frontend migrations or platform rewrites

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.

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