Software Architect

🕒 October 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185.4k - $231.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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DraftKings Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

Gaming • Sports • B2C

DraftKings Inc. is a global company known for providing innovative products and experiences primarily in the sports betting and fantasy sports sectors. The company boasts a strong presence across multiple countries, aiming to deliver exceptional customer moments and overcoming challenges through teamwork and persistence. At DraftKings, innovation in engineering, analytics, and product development is key, with a focus on creating unforgettable customer experiences in sportsbook and casino operations. The company emphasizes a dynamic work culture, inclusion, equity, and global collaboration within its diverse teams.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve architectural solutions improving performance, scalability, reliability, and operations • Own the exchange technical roadmap and architecture for major domain initiatives • Maintain shared foundations, system boundaries, core patterns, and data contracts • Drive consistency in technologies and patterns across exchange services • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Platform, partner engineering teams, brokers, market makers, and clearing partners • Contribute hands-on to prototypes, proofs of concept, and production systems • Set performance and reliability targets and lead load and resilience testing before peak events • Guide teams on distributed-system patterns, fault tolerance, observability, and operational readiness • Own operational health using automation and AI tooling to detect and prevent problems • Support incident resolution and turn lessons into recurring-failure fixes • Identify and pursue platform cost-efficiency opportunities • Conduct design reviews and provide technical guidance • Mentor engineers on architecture and effective AI-tool usage • Identify, measure, and scale valuable AI applications in the domain • Set guardrails for AI-assisted work • Align architectural decisions with business priorities and long-term platform strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Professional software engineering experience • Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production • Experience with fast, high-volume transactional or event-driven systems where accuracy matters as much as speed • Background in exchanges, trading, payments, or other financial systems is a strong advantage • Extensive knowledge of messaging and streaming systems • Hands-on Kafka expertise is a strong advantage • Understanding of distributed state management, data splitting and sharding, in-memory versus durable storage, and consistency trade-offs • Understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and orchestration • Comfort working across Go and .NET/C# stacks • Familiarity with FIX, gRPC, and Protobuf • Experience integrating with third-party systems • Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases • Proficiency with continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, observability tooling, load testing, and capacity projections • Practical experience using AI tools in production, including coding assistants, agents, automated review, and analysis • Ability to evaluate the economics of AI-based approaches versus building or buying • Exposure to regulated software environments, including auditability, data sensitivity, and compliance • Clear, structured communication and ability to document decisions and influence technical and non-technical audiences • Interest in mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Equity • Benefits as applicable • Gaming license guidance if relevant to the role