Senior Frontend Engineer

DraftKings; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

DraftKings is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to design and build scalable frontend systems for real-time customer-facing products. You will shape frontend architecture, improve performance and reliability, and collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams to translate complex needs into accessible features.

You will own core architecture decisions, drive code quality, and mentor engineers while ensuring cross-device stability and strong testing practices.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional experience building frontend applications with a framework such as React, Vue, or Angular.
• Strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills, including knowledge of browser behavior and rendering performance.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience delivering responsive, accessible, performant interfaces at scale.
• Ability to write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Collaborative communication skills, including experience mentoring teammates and leading technical discussions; good written and spoken English is needed for global collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable frontend systems for real-time applications.
• Own core architecture decisions and promote sound practices for code quality, accessibility, and performance.
• Deliver and maintain features that improve user flows and cross-device stability.
• Lead code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and guide technical discussions.
• Improve shared design systems, tools, and frontend infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve complex browser, device, and performance issues.

Skills

Frontend development

React/Vue/Angular

JavaScript/HTML/CSS

Testing

Mentoring

English communication

Job description

Role overview

Lead frontend development for customer-facing products used at high volume. You’ll shape frontend architecture, improve performance and reliability, and work with engineering, design, and product partners to turn complex needs into accessible, intuitive features.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable frontend systems for real-time applications.


• Own core architecture decisions and promote sound practices for code quality, accessibility, and performance.


• Deliver and maintain features that improve user flows and cross-device stability.


• Lead code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and guide technical discussions.


• Improve shared design systems, tools, and frontend infrastructure.


• Investigate and resolve complex browser, device, and performance issues.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience building frontend applications with a framework such as React, Vue, or Angular.


• Strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills, including knowledge of browser behavior and rendering performance.


• Understanding of object-oriented programming, software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.


• Experience delivering responsive, accessible, performant interfaces at scale.


• Ability to write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.


• Collaborative communication skills, including experience mentoring teammates and leading technical discussions; good written and spoken English is needed for global collaboration.

Benefits and work setup

• The listing identifies the role as remote.


• Employment may require obtaining a gaming license from the relevant state agency.