Senior Lead Software Engineer
DraftKings1 day ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and delivery of customer-facing applications and specialized AI solutions through production.
- Contribute hands-on to implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical problem solving.
- Build and customize AI agents, including prompts, context, MCP servers/tools, and system integrations.
- Design and build scalable services using C#/.NET, AWS, and distributed-system architectures.
- Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to a small engineering team.
- Integrate internal platforms and external vendor systems for reliable production operation.
- Drive reliability, security, observability, and operational standards for high-scale regulated systems.
- Partner with product, engineering, business stakeholders, platform teams, and external partners to solve customer problems.
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Codex for coding, design, analysis, and problem solving.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET and AWS cloud production solutions.
- Experience leading engineers and owning technical direction while contributing to implementation.
- Experience operating in large, distributed environments involving cloud services, internal platforms, and external vendors.
- Strong proficiency with Claude and Codex.
- Interest in or experience building AI agents, MCP tools, and Context Engineering.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to obtain a gaming license from the appropriate state agency if required for the role.
Benefits
- Full-time position with bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- Gaming license guidance and support will be provided if the role requires one.
- US base salary range is provided separately in the salary fields and excludes bonus, equity, and benefits.
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About DraftKings
DraftKings builds consumer platforms for daily fantasy sports, online sports betting, and real-money casino games in regulated markets. It generates revenue from wagers, fantasy contest entry fees, and casino gameplay, delivered via mobile and web apps. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ and operates across many U.S. states and Ontario.