Senior Software Engineer
DraftKings2 days ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for financial exchange functionality.
- Develop distributed systems for high-volume, low-latency transaction processing and real-time market activity.
- Partner with Product, Data, Trading Ops, and Engineering teams to deliver exchange features.
- Contribute to core platform architecture, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Optimize system performance through design, profiling, testing, and continuous improvement.
- Establish engineering practices through code reviews, technical mentorship, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Resolve complex production issues and improve observability, monitoring, and system reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any relevant combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Demonstrated expertise developing applications and services in C#/.NET.
- Experience designing and building scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and system design for high-throughput applications.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and modern infrastructure platforms.
- Proficiency with relational and NoSQL database technologies.
- Knowledge of performance optimization, monitoring strategies, and operational practices for mission-critical systems.
- Experience with financial exchanges, trading platforms, market infrastructure, or high-frequency transaction systems is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- US base salary range of 119,500.00 USD to 149,400.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- Full-time position available across US locations, with pay determined by work location and other job-related factors.
- A gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency may be required, with guidance provided through the process.
Tech Stack
C#.NET
Categories
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.