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DraftKings Engineering Team

As a global tech company, we highly value close collaboration and communication. Fostering open and engaging cross-functional work across all parts of the business is a critical point of emphasis and key to finding success at DraftKings. We are a team of builders and problem solvers. From optimizing the end-user experience to working with different coding languages, you’ll find your next challenge here.

What People Are Saying About DraftKings

  • Autonomy: Teams are expected to own services end to end in a modern microservices/Kubernetes/AWS environment, with engineers trusted to propose and drive architectural changes quickly. Feedback suggests the “you build it, you run it” ethos gives individuals clear control over production outcomes.
  • Learning & Development: Internal mobility, structured paths, and frequent tech talks/conference support create regular opportunities to level up while working on real-time, high-scale systems. Feedback suggests engineers learn rapidly through hands-on ownership and cross-team knowledge sharing.
  • Team Support: Colleagues are often described as collaborative and willing to help, with deliberate rituals like DK Immersion and cross-time-zone cadences keeping distributed teams connected. Feedback suggests close partner work with product and strong knowledge-sharing make complex, game-day challenges more manageable.

Recently posted jobs

10 Hours AgoSaved
Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
Digital Media • Gaming • Information Technology • Software • Sports • Esports • Big Data Analytics
Build and manage relationships with high-value players to drive revenue and loyalty. Coordinate local events, communications, escalations, and feedback. Monitor market offerings, promote games and promotions, support platform improvements, and follow VIP and responsible gaming policies.
10 Hours AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
Ontario, ON, CAN
Digital Media • Gaming • Information Technology • Software • Sports • Esports • Big Data Analytics
Prospect and acquire high-value VIP players across Ontario, build lasting customer relationships, execute regional acquisition events, and implement localized strategies, promotions, and offers. Manage business plans to achieve revenue and profit targets while supporting compliance, responsible gaming, and player experience initiatives. The role requires managing high-value accounts, obtaining gaming licenses, and working nights, weekends, and travel as needed.
10 Hours AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
Canada
Digital Media • Gaming • Information Technology • Software • Sports • Esports • Big Data Analytics
Build and operate scalable Go backend services for DraftKings Exchange, supporting high-volume, low-latency transactions and real-time market activity. Responsibilities include distributed systems design, architecture, performance optimization, production troubleshooting, observability improvements, code reviews, mentorship, and collaboration with product, data, trading operations, and engineering teams.

At a glance

problems we solve

The Mobile Engineering team is building the best possible experience for anyone who interacts with any of our DraftKings products on a mobile device. Over the last several years, technologies for writing mobile apps have changed drastically, and keeping up with the changes has become necessary to stay current. Our team is currently at this juncture—we are migrating to new foundations for our iOS and Android systems. Migrations like this don’t happen often, and it’s a huge career opportunity to take part in this project.