Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails
DraftKings Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $119,500 - $149,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptPostgresReactRubyRuby on RailsSQL
About the role
- Build and scale the systems behind product features across the stack.
- Lead development of moderately complex features, driving team-wide technical initiatives from design through deployment.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Architecture teams to shape technical solutions.
- Write clean, testable code and build robust integration and unit tests.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, lead root cause analyses, and implement solutions.
- Support on-call rotations, contribute to post-incident reviews, and drive operational excellence.
- Champion best practices in code reviews, architecture discussions, and team processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any relevant combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 3 years of experience building web applications in Ruby on Rails or a similar MVC framework.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including writing SQL and designing schemas.
- Comfort with frontend basics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript); exposure to frameworks like React is a plus.
- Practical understanding of cloud platforms, ideally GCP, including deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD workflows.
- A self-motivated and organized mindset with a track record of delivering quality code in a team environment.
- The ability to mentor others and influence technical decision-making.
- May be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment.