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 organization. Your work will strengthen our foundation today while enabling us to move faster and smarter tomorrow. The Unified Trading Platform domain is at the center of our sports offering ecosystem, delivering real-time, high-volume sports data that powers odds, events, and market experiences. In this role, you’ll take technical ownership of the domain and help drive the evolution of resilient, scalable, and high-performing systems. You’ll translate product needs into sustainable architecture, shape the technical direction of the platform, and help us solve complex challenges in a multi-tenant, global environment with real-time data requirements.
- 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 longterm 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.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- Extensive knowledge of messaging and streaming systems; hands-on expertise with Kafka is a strong advantage.
- Proven understanding of push-based microservices architecture, including containerization and orchestration paradigms.
- Strong expertise in scalable design patterns, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and modern cloud-based architectures.
- Proficiency with modern development practices, including continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
- Experience collaborating across teams to deliver cross-functional technical initiatives that improve system stability, scalability, or efficiency.
- Clear, structured communication skills with the ability to document architectural decisions and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A passion for mentoring engineers, providing actionable design feedback, and continuously improving engineering standards.
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing Program: Free access to programs such as free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, Virtual Yoga Classes, and many more.
- Parental Leave & Support: 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and offer workplace lactation support.
- Family Planning: Benefits that support family planning, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning.
- Vacation Days: 25 vacation days per year.
- Food Voucher: 200 BGN food vouchers per month.
- MultiSport Card: 50% coverage of monthly sports card in a wide network of sports facilities.
- Financial Planning: Programs like Origin Financial to help plan for financial future and success.
- Commuter Benefits: Access to commuter benefits to help save money on daily commute.
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.
