Software Architect

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $185.4k - $231.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Define and evolve architectural solutions that improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. • Design and refine frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards that enhance system resilience and long-term maintainability. • Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to embed sound architectural principles into planning, design, and delivery. • Contribute hands-on to critical initiatives, including prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and production systems that demonstrate scalable, maintainable design. • Guide teams in adopting robust distributed system patterns, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and operational maturity are built in from day one. • Provide thoughtful design reviews and technical guidance that raise the bar for engineering quality and consistency. • Collaborate with engineering leaders to align architectural decisions with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training. • At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production environments. • Proven experience owning architectural components of high-availability, mission-critical platforms. • Strong expertise in scalable design patterns, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and modern cloud-based architectures. • Proficiency with modern development practices, including continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling. • Experience collaborating across teams to deliver cross-functional technical initiatives that improve system stability, scalability, or efficiency. • Clear, structured communication skills with the ability to document architectural decisions and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • A passion for mentoring engineers, providing actionable design feedback, and continuously improving engineering standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• bonus • equity