Senior Lead AI Software Engineer - C#/.NET & AWS

DraftKings

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 161,000 - 201,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

DraftKings is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to head a small engineering team delivering customer-facing AI solutions. You will own technical design, contribute to implementation, and guide the team from experimentation to secure production delivery.

You'll mentor engineers, partner with product and business stakeholders, and drive reliability, security, and observability in a high-scale, regulated environment. Boston-based role with competitive base salary.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS and delivering scalable production solutions in the cloud.
Experience leading engineers and owning technical direction while remaining actively involved in implementation.
Experience working in large, distributed environments where cloud services, internal platforms, and external vendor systems must operate reliably together.
Strong proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Codex.
Interest in, or experience with, building AI agents, MCP tools, and Context Engineering. Deep prior AI-agent expertise not required if you bring strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to dive deeply into business domains and customer problems.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical design and delivery of customer-facing applications and specialized AI solutions from concept through production.
Stay deeply hands-on in engineering, contributing to implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical problem solving.
Build and customize AI agents, including the context, prompts, MCP servers/tools, and integrations required for them to operate effectively.
Design and build scalable services using C#/.NET, AWS, and modern distributed-system architectures.
Work across back-end, AI integration, and platform boundaries, including integrations with internal systems and external vendors.
Lead a small team of engineers through technical direction, mentoring, design discussions, and delivery.
Partner closely with product, engineering, business stakeholders, platform teams, and external partners to understand domain-specific customer problems and turn them into practical technical solutions.
Drive solutions to meet the reliability, security, observability, and operational standards required for high-scale, regulated customer-facing systems.
Be highly proficient with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Codex across coding, technical design, analysis, and problem solving.