# Software Engineer III (Ruby on Rails) (Marketing Technology)

**Company:** [PrizePicks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/prizepicks)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $145k – $155k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, Postgres, REST APIs, Sidekiq, Docker, Kubernetes, Rspec, Braze, Rudderstack, Segment
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Builds and owns Ruby on Rails backend services for marketing technology, including CDP integrations and marketing automation. Requires 3-5 years experience with Rails, PostgreSQL, APIs, and martech tools like Braze; guides juniors and collaborates cross-functionally.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own feature development end-to-end, from technical design through delivery, breaking complex projects into well-scoped pieces across the martech stack.
- Write high-quality, idiomatic, performant, well-tested **Ruby** code.
- Contribute to team-level architectural decisions around data modeling, CDP event schemas, service boundaries, **API** design, and background processing.
- Design and own integrations with **Customer Data Platform (CDP)** and marketing automation tools like **Braze** (event ingestion, audience syncing, canvas triggering via **API**).
- Improve data reliability, pipeline performance, and developer experience proactively.
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Data, and Product teams to implement campaign and personalization requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and improvements.
- Document technical decisions, data models, and integration patterns.

## Requirements

**Experience:**
- 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building **Ruby on Rails** applications.
- Hands-on experience with a **Customer Data Platform** (**Rudderstack**, **Segment**, **mParticle**, or similar) — event tracking, identity resolution, audience building.
- Experience integrating with marketing automation platforms (**Braze**, **Iterable**, **Klaviyo**), including direct **API** usage.
- History of delivering complex features to drive business outcomes.
- Breaking down ambiguous requirements from non-technical stakeholders into technical plans.
- Exposure to large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems.

**Technical Skills:**
- Advanced proficiency in **Ruby on Rails**.
- Strong **PostgreSQL** skills (schema design, query optimization, migrations, performance at scale).
- Designing and building **RESTful APIs** within **Rails**.
- Data engineering fundamentals: pipeline design, event schema management, high-volume data flows.
- Solid testing practices (**RSpec**, **Minitest**; unit, integration, end-to-end).
- Background job processing (**Sidekiq** or similar).
- Containerization (**Docker**) and orchestration (**Kubernetes**).
- **CI/CD** pipelines and deployment workflows.

**Working Style:**
- Autonomous problem-solving.
- Comfortable with direct technical feedback.
- Strong written communicator in remote environment.
- Able to context-switch between technical work and stakeholder conversations.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
- **dbt**, **Spark**, **Airflow**, or analytical pipelines.
- Building/maintaining user segmentation or audience management systems.
- Identity resolution (**device graphs**, deterministic vs. probabilistic matching).
- Supporting marketing experimentation (**A/B tests**, holdout groups).
- Compliance knowledge (**CAN-SPAM**, **TCPA**, **CCPA**).

## Compensation

Typical salary range: **$145,000 to $155,000** (actual pay depends on location, skills, experience, education).

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