Software Architect
As a Software Architect, you'll help design and scale the systems that power world-class digital experiences. You'll play a critical role in shaping architectural decisions while staying close to the code, ensuring our platforms are resilient, performant, and built to evolve.
Working across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams, you'll influence how we approach distributed systems at scale and elevate technical standards across the organisation. Your work will strengthen our foundation today while enabling us to move faster and smarter tomorrow.
- Define and evolve architectural solutions that improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Design and refine frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards that enhance system resilience and long-term maintainability.
- Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to embed sound architectural principles into planning, design, and delivery.
- Contribute hands-on to critical initiatives, including prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and production systems that demonstrate scalable, maintainable design.
- Guide teams in adopting robust distributed system patterns, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and operational maturity are built in from day one.
- Provide thoughtful design reviews and technical guidance that raise the bar for engineering quality and consistency.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to align architectural decisions with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training (required).
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production environments (required).
- Proven experience owning architectural components of high-availability, mission-critical platforms (required).
- Strong expertise in scalable design patterns, performance optimisation, reliability engineering, and modern cloud-based architectures (required).
- Proficiency with modern development practices, including continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling (required).
- Experience collaborating across teams to deliver cross-functional technical initiatives that improve system stability, scalability, or efficiency (required).
- Clear, structured communication skills with the ability to document architectural decisions and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders (required).
- A passion for mentoring engineers, providing actionable design feedback, and continuously improving engineering standards (required).
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing Program with free therapy sessions, employee assistance programmes, the Calm App, and virtual yoga classes.
- 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
- Partnership with Care.com for care finder and backup childcare partner services for US employees.
- Family planning benefits supporting adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning needs.
- Flexible PTO for employees working in the United States.
- Pet insurance to help save on vet expenses.
- Gym reimbursement for part of gym membership costs.
- Financial planning resources, including 401(k) matching and programs like Origin Financial.
- Commuter benefits to help lower costs associated with daily commutes.
- Tuition Reimbursement Program for educational courses related to positions.
DraftKings Inc. is a leading American digital sports entertainment and gaming company, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2012, it started in daily fantasy sports and has grown into one of the largest US online sportsbook and iGaming operators. The company offers mobile sports betting, online casino and daily fantasy contests across regulated North American markets. DraftKings is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people.