Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DraftKings is a technology company using AI to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive innovation. The Software Engineering Manager will lead a backend platform team, overseeing people, technical direction, delivery, and a scalable platform roadmap while developing reusable services and capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of day-to-day operations for an Engineering team, including planning, prioritization, execution, delivery, and team rituals
- Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
- Own your team’s platform roadmap and priorities, balancing stakeholder commitments with long-term scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience
- Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across DraftKings to understand product strategies, integration needs, technical constraints, and future growth plans
- Identify shared needs and translate them into reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplicated engineering effort
- Facilitate architectural discussions and design sessions, guiding decisions around service contracts, platform standards, integrations, migrations, and technical tradeoffs
- Serve as the technical point of accountability for your team and dive into code reviews, architecture decisions, or complex troubleshooting when needed
- Promote engineering and operational excellence across the platform, championing reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
- At least 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams, driving technical excellence and supporting individual development
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, shared-services, or developer-enablement teams that support multiple products or business areas
- A proven track record of developing technical roadmaps that balance stakeholder needs with scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and influencing across teams
- Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as C# or Java, with hands-on experience using modern .NET technologies
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message brokers such as Kafka, and cloud infrastructure and services, especially within AWS
- Experience operating production systems, including observability, incident response, capacity planning, cost optimization, and continuous reliability improvements
Benefits
- Bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable
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