Software Architect
DraftKings1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$185k - $232k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve architectural solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
- Own the exchange’s technical roadmap and architecture for major initiatives across market data, trading, clearing, and settlement.
- Maintain shared system foundations, including patterns, boundaries, and data contracts.
- Drive consistency in technologies and architectural patterns across exchange services.
- Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Platform, brokers, market makers, clearing partners, and other engineering teams.
- Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and production systems hands-on.
- Set performance and reliability targets and lead load and resilience testing before peak sporting events.
- Guide distributed-system design covering fault tolerance, observability, and operational readiness.
- Own operational health, contribute to incident resolution, and implement preventative fixes.
- Use AI tooling and automation to improve analysis, monitoring, drafting, delivery speed, quality, and cost efficiency.
- Conduct design reviews, provide technical guidance, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards.
- Align architectural decisions with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.
Requirements
- Significant professional software engineering experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Experience with high-volume transactional or event-driven systems where correctness and speed are critical; exchange, trading, payments, or financial-systems experience is advantageous.
- Extensive knowledge of messaging and streaming systems; hands-on Kafka expertise is advantageous.
- Understanding of distributed state management, data partitioning and sharding, in-memory versus durable storage, and consistency trade-offs.
- Experience with microservices architecture, containerization, orchestration, and more than one language stack, including comfort with Go and .NET/C#.
- Familiarity with FIX, gRPC, Protobuf, contract-first design, and third-party system integrations.
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and their use-case trade-offs.
- Proficiency with continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, observability tooling, load testing, and capacity projection.
- Practical production experience with AI coding assistants, agents, automated review, and analysis.
- Ability to evaluate the economics of AI-based approaches against building or buying solutions.
- Exposure to regulated software environments, including auditability, data sensitivity, and compliance.
- Clear communication and documentation skills for influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Interest in mentoring engineers, providing design feedback, and improving engineering standards.
Benefits
- Full-time position with U.S. base salary, bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- A gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency may be required as a condition of employment, with DraftKings guidance through the process.
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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.