Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud Systems
DraftKings Inc.
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Job summary
DraftKings Inc. seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide a small engineering team building AI-enabled, customer-facing applications in a high-scale, regulated environment.
The role combines technical leadership with hands-on coding, design decisions, and mentorship across AI integration, platform, and application layers. You will own the engineering direction, contribute to implementation, perform code reviews, and lead the team from experimentation to secure production delivery, including
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong C#/.NET.
- Experience delivering scalable production solutions in AWS.
- Experience leading engineers and owning technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of customer-facing applications and AI solutions.
- Hands-on engineering, implementation, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
- Build and customize AI agents, MCP servers/tools, and integrations.
- Design and build scalable services using C#/.NET and AWS.
- Collaborate across back-end, AI integration, and platform teams.
- Mentor engineers and guide technical direction and delivery.
- Partner with product and stakeholders to translate problems into technical solutions.
- Ensure reliability, security, observability, and operations for high-scale systems.
- Proficient with AI-assisted development tools like Claude and Codex.
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Job description
DraftKings Inc. seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide a small engineering team building AI-enabled, customer-facing applications in a high-scale, regulated environment.
The role combines technical leadership with hands-on coding, design decisions, and mentorship across AI integration, platform, and application layers. You will own the engineering direction, contribute to implementation, perform code reviews, and lead the team from experimentation to secure production delivery, including
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