Senior Software Engineer, Backend
DraftKings Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $119,500 - $149,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPython
About the role
- Design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs that enable real-time, AI-driven features across a high-volume, 24/7 platform
- Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure required to train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning and reinforcement learning models
- Implement evaluation frameworks to continuously measure model performance and system behavior, driving improvements with experimentation and metrics
- Work with researchers and data scientists to translate AI concepts, like reward function design and tradeoffs, into performant production-ready systems
- Stay at the forefront of AI/ML innovation, integrating new techniques and tools into backend services with speed and pragmatism
- Deliver high-quality, production-ready code from day one, while continuously tuning systems for performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Own the full software development lifecycle for your services, including design, monitoring, debugging, and long-term support
- Collaborate across disciplines to ensure technical alignment with product goals, mentoring teammates and elevating engineering standards
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience in object-oriented backend development using languages like C#, Java, or Python
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
- Experience building data pipelines and backend infrastructure to support ML training, inference, and model evaluation
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning concepts and the ability to reason about reward design, convergence, and real-world tradeoffs
- Proficiency in writing and maintaining automated test suites, including unit, integration, and performance tests for large-scale backend services
- Comfort setting up experimentation or evaluation frameworks to validate AI-driven systems in live environments
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership settings, triaging and resolving production issues, shipping features quickly, and optimizing for scale
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a drive to stay current with industry trends in AI, ML engineering, and software architecture
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits as applicable
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
object-oriented programmingbackend developmentC#JavaPythondistributed systemscloud environmentsdata pipelinesmachine learningreinforcement learning
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringadaptabilitycuriosityproblem-solvingcommunicationownershipperformance optimizationfast-paced worktechnical alignment
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science