Software Engineer, DraftKings
Technology Strategy Group
Digital sports betting platform
Job no longer available
Digital sports betting platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
DraftKings' mission is to provide sports fans with exciting and engaging sports entertainment, with skin in the game.
Role
Who you are
- Experience on a development team where you were responsible for the entire development cycle of new features and their maintenance
- An understanding of how to integrate systems, think outside the box to determine MVP, and iterate solutions
- Strong technical generalist, capable of full-stack development with strong backend knowledge
- Expertise in at least one object-oriented language like C# or Java or scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript
- Experience with integration tools like Boomi, MuleSoft, or BizTalk
- Strong understanding of an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- Knowledge of PaaS/SaaS/IaaS technologies like Azure or AWS
- Familiarity with security concepts is preferred
- Ability to bring people from different parts of the organization together and create strong work relationships with them
- Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions that people will adopt and utilize
What the job involves
- Build solutions for internal DraftKings systems, including bespoke systems and 3rd party products that constitute the DraftKings ecosystem. (E.g., HR systems, IT provisioning systems, finance, support systems)
- Design and deliver reliable solutions with multiple technologies such as Boomi or AWS and help in the decision when introducing new tools into the team ecosystem
- Be an active participant in all the agile ceremonies of the team
- Enjoy a challenging and changing day-to-day working on coding, DevOps, databases, infrastructure
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple regions within DraftKings to define requirements and engineer solutions that are scalable, robust, and reliable
- 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
Our take
DraftKings is a sports betting company. It allowing users to enter a wide variety of different fantasy and non-fantasy sport competitions. In 2021 the platform had 8+ million customers and was live in 12 U.S. states, there is good potential to enter 10+ other states where sports betting has recently been made legal.
The company's Sportsbook offers mobile and retail betting for major U.S. and international sports. There are leagues for fantasy football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, college football, and college basketball.
In 2021 DraftKings announced they plan on launching an NFT collectables marketplace where they will create sports and entertainment-themed collectibles. They are further hoping to make the purchase of NFTs simpler by allowing customers to buy in USD rather than cryptocurrency. Whilst it is a high risk, entering the NFT market could be massively profitable for the company.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2017
$118m
SERIES E
Sep 2016
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $633m
Company benefits
- Vision and dental insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Equal opportunity employer
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Back Bay East, Boston, MA
Leadership
Jason Robins
(CEO)Jason studied at Duke University before working for Capital One and Vistaprint for a combined 4 years. In 2012, they co-founded DraftKings as CEO.
Matt Kalish
(President)Matt started their career at Fidelity Investments before spending a combined 6 years at Capital One and Vistaprint. In 2012 they left this CRM Marketing Manager role to found DraftKings.
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