[Remote] Staff 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, recognized for its leading platform in Daily Fantasy Sports. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer with expertise in TypeScript and React Native to design and build critical features for their mobile application, mentor other engineers, and drive technical direction and efficiency within the team.ResponsibilitiesOwn 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 appLead 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 thinkingDrive 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 confidenceEstablish engineering practices: Define and enforce standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment across the teamMentor 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 improvementCollaborate at the organizational level: Work with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and other Staff/Principal engineers to align technical strategy with business objectivesOwn 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 platformParticipate in on-call rotation: Own systemic reliability improvements and lead incident response for the most critical production issuesSkills8–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise building production React Native applications at scaleProven track record of owning multiple complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a teamExperience with the full mobile development lifecycle at scale — architecture, build systems, deployment pipelines, and post-release monitoringExperience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of usersHistory of elevating engineering teams through mentorship, standards-setting, and technical leadershipMastery-level TypeScript proficiency — you are a reference point for TypeScript best practices, patterns, and type system usageDeep React Native expertise — you have solved hard problems around performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistencyExpert experience with Expo and its ecosystem, monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces), and mobile build/release infrastructureStrong understanding of mobile testing strategies at scale — Jest, Maestro for E2E testing, and quality automationProficiency with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — automated builds, OTA updates, staged rollouts, app store pipelinesUnderstanding of backend API patterns — you can read, reason about, and influence API design across Go and Rails servicesOperates with full autonomy — you define your own work and the work of the team based on what matters mostExceptional communicator who can represent technical strategy to engineering leadership and non-technical stakeholdersExperienced in fully remote engineering organizationsComfortable making high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete informationExperience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the full development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code reviewVision for how AI tooling and agentic coding practices can accelerate team productivity and improve engineering outcomesBenefitsCompany-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans401(k) plan with company matchAnnual bonusFlexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefitsWorkplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clockedCompany-wide in-person events and team outingsLifestyle enhancement programCompany equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career developmentCompany OverviewPrizePicks 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.