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Job Description
Senior Lead Software Engineer
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in our iGaming vertical, you will help direct our engineering teams and influence our product roadmap.
Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
Here, "impossible" isn't part of our vocabulary.
You'll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career.
Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take technical ownership for the design, development, maintenance, testing strategy of the iGaming platform.
- Collaborate with business leads across the company to define milestones and deliverables on short time frames for new functionality to be added to existing systems.
- Lead your team in design sessions and ensure your team delivers high-quality work that aligns with Draft Kings' engineering strategy.
Requirements:
- Experience as the 'expert' on a development team where you were responsible for everything from planning to delivering key features and management of those features.
- Solid experience with containerized microservices, auto-scaling, and managed infrastructures.
- Expertise with at least one object-oriented language like C# or Java.
- Strong relational database skills using technologies like MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with AWS services, Kubernetes, and on-premise servers.
- Ability to design systems and components and, most importantly, communicate that knowledge to other team members via tech plans and mentoring.
- Strong experience in incident handling and working in On-Call.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, real-time decision making, and responsiveness to problem-solving that put the customer experience first.
Draft Kings is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in Boston.
As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment.