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DraftKings Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment company operating a leading online sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, and casino platform that delivers real-money betting and gaming experiences via web and mobile apps. It combines sports data, analytics, and content to engage fans, provides marketing and VIP/loyalty programs, and maintains global teams across engineering, product, compliance, and customer experience while emphasizing responsible gaming.

📋 Description

• Act as a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly to the design, development, and delivery of critical platform capabilities. • Lead greenfield initiatives that introduce new AI platform capabilities, validating ideas through prototypes, building initial implementations, and evolving them into scalable platform services. • Partner with engineering teams across the organization to identify common problems and transform successful patterns into reusable platform capabilities. • Establish engineering patterns, reference implementations, and technical standards by building them first and helping teams adopt them. • Raise the effectiveness of senior engineers through mentorship, pairing, design guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching. • Collaborate with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Architecture partners to align technical decisions with long-term platform strategy while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale. • Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams and driving architectural decisions. • Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and modern software engineering practices. • Hands-on experience building platform capabilities, developer tooling, or shared infrastructure. • Experience applying and evolving agentic engineering practices to improve how software is designed, built, tested, and delivered. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across the organization.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities