Staff Software Engineer (React Native)
PrizePicks2 months ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+
Base Salary
$195k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction, architecture, standards, and best practices for mobile features.
- Design and deliver the team’s most complex, high-scope technical projects.
- Build and own critical features in the React Native mobile application.
- Improve developer tooling, build pipelines, development workflows, and CI/CD processes.
- Define standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and raise engineering quality across the organization.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and Staff/Principal engineers on technical strategy.
- Ensure effective integration between the mobile app and Go and Rails backend services, including API contracts and data flows.
- Participate in on-call rotation, improve systemic reliability, and lead response to critical production incidents.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience with deep production React Native experience at scale.
- Proven experience owning complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a team.
- Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle, including 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.
- Strong technical leadership, mentorship, standards-setting, autonomy, and communication skills.
- Mastery-level TypeScript proficiency and deep React Native expertise, including performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistency.
- Expertise with Expo, its ecosystem, monorepo tooling, and Yarn workspaces.
- Experience with mobile testing strategies at scale, including Jest and Maestro for end-to-end testing.
- Proficiency with Expo/EAS workflows, automated builds, over-the-air updates, staged rollouts, and app store pipelines.
- Understanding of backend API patterns and the ability to influence API design across Go and Rails services.
- Experience in fully remote engineering organizations and comfort making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools across coding, planning, scoping, and code review is a preferred qualification.
- A vision for using AI tooling and agentic coding practices to improve team productivity is a preferred qualification.
- Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer; visa sponsorship or transfer is unavailable.
Benefits
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Annual bonus and flexible paid time off.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave and disability benefits.
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules.
- Company-wide in-person events and team outings.
- Lifestyle enhancement program.
- Company-provided equipment with Windows and Mac options.
- Annual performance reviews with career development opportunities.
- Candidates may be based anywhere in the U.S.; Atlanta is preferred and remote candidates are considered.
- The application period is expected to remain open for 30 days, with listed extension dates of May 28, 2026 and June 27, 2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Mobile
About PrizePicks
PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2023 Inc. 5000 rankings, two years running, and the largest independent skill-based fantasy sports operator in the country. The company was recently recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association and as the Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America. PrizePicks is a fun, fast, and simple version of daily fantasy sports, covering a wide variety of sports leagues from the NFL and NBA to esports titles League of Legends, Counter-Strike & Valorant. The company is headquartered in Atlanta. PrizePicks is available in the App Store and Google Play or at prizepicks.com.