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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

• Lead day-to-day operations for an Engineering team, including planning, prioritization, execution, delivery, and team rituals • Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development • Own the team’s platform roadmap and priorities while balancing stakeholder commitments with long-term scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience • Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to understand product strategies, integration needs, technical constraints, and future growth plans • Translate shared needs into reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities • Facilitate architectural discussions and design sessions covering service contracts, platform standards, integrations, migrations, and technical tradeoffs • Serve as the technical point of accountability and contribute to code reviews, architecture decisions, and complex troubleshooting • Promote engineering and operational excellence across reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training • At least 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams • Experience leading platform, infrastructure, shared-services, or developer-enablement teams supporting multiple products or business areas • Proven track record developing technical roadmaps balancing stakeholder needs with scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience • Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including stakeholder alignment, competing-priority management, and cross-team influence • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as C# or Java • Hands-on experience using modern .NET technologies • Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, Kafka or other message brokers, and cloud infrastructure and services, especially AWS • Experience operating production systems, including observability, incident response, capacity planning, cost optimization, and continuous reliability improvements • May be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Equity • Benefits as applicable • Guidance through the gaming-license process if relevant to the role