AI-Driven Software Architect for Scalable Exchanges

DraftKings Inc.; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 185,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Job summary

DraftKings Inc. is seeking a Software Architect to design and scale systems powering our digital experiences and DKExchange domain. You’ll shape architectural decisions, stay close to code, and ensure platforms are resilient and evolvable while guiding AI tooling integration.

You’ll work with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to scale the exchange for peak events, define technical roadmaps, and maintain core patterns and data contracts across services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
• Background in financial/exchanges or high-throughput environments is a plus.
• Hands-on with AI tools applied to production workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architectural solutions to improve performance and scalability.
• Own the technical roadmap for the exchange and design major initiatives.
• Set and publish targets for reliability and lead load testing.
• Mentor engineers and ensure alignment with business priorities.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Microservices architecture

Go and .NET/C#

Kafka and streaming

Containerization and orchestration

CI/CD and observability

AI tooling in production

Performance and load testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Go

.NET/C#

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

DraftKings Inc. is seeking a Software Architect to design and scale systems powering our digital experiences and DKExchange domain. You’ll shape architectural decisions, stay close to code, and ensure platforms are resilient and evolvable while guiding AI tooling integration.

You’ll work with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to scale the exchange for peak events, define technical roadmaps, and maintain core patterns and data contracts across services.