Job Description

Be part of a groundbreaking company.

DraftKings is growing quickly and is looking for a Lead Software Engineer for the Payment Applications team in the Financial Platform Division. You'll be part of one of our multidisciplinary teams working with a passionate group of engineers to build best-in-class, industry-leading deposit & withdrawal experiences for DraftKings users! You will also be a creative contributor to the entire Agile development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and monitoring. Sound good to you? Join us.

What you'll do as a Lead Software Engineer:

Develop systems and APIs that power a rich set of applications used by a large and passionate user group every day.
Work with your team under fast deadlines to design, build, and deliver innovative applications.
Lead your team in design sessions and ensure your team delivers high-quality work that aligns with the mission of our platform.
Foster a culture that promotes clean, well-organized, testable, and reusable code.
Care about agility as much as you care about scalability. We roll out products very quickly and are looking for a team that can pivot at a moment's notice.

What skills you will use:

Ideally, you have multiple years of development experience in object-oriented programming languages and modern CSS & JavaScript frameworks.
Expertise with at least one object-oriented language like C# or Java.
Expertise with either , Angular, or TypeScript.
Ability to participate in code reviews, design reviews, and over-the-shoulder debugging.
Strong relational database skills using technologies like MySQL or SQL Server.
You have 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.
Experience writing and maintaining a comprehensive suite of unit and integration tests.
Experience writing distributed systems in a Cloud Computing environment such as AWS strongly preferred.

Valid through: 3/12/2021

About Draft Kings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.

Total Jobs:

Average Pay:

$120,070

Total value of jobs:

$8,525,000

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