Software Engineering Manager

DraftKings Inc.

1d•$160,700 - $200,900•Onsite

About The Position

At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It’s transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We’re not waiting for the future to arrive. We’re shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together. The Crown Is Yours As a Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a high-impact backend platform team building foundational technology that powers DraftKings Engineering at scale. You'll balance people leadership, technical direction, and delivery while partnering across the organization to develop reusable services and capabilities that support multiple products and business verticals. You'll own a forward-looking platform roadmap focused on scalability, reliability, developer experience, and operational excellence while developing a high-performing engineering team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
At least 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams, driving technical excellence and supporting individual development.
Experience leading platform, infrastructure, shared-services, or developer-enablement teams that support multiple products or business areas.
A proven track record of developing technical roadmaps that balance stakeholder needs with scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and influencing across teams.
Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as C# or Java, with hands-on experience using modern .NET technologies.
Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message brokers such as Kafka, and cloud infrastructure and services, especially within AWS.
Experience operating production systems, including observability, incident response, capacity planning, cost optimization, and continuous reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

Lead all aspects of day-to-day operations for an Engineering team, including planning, prioritization, execution, delivery, and team rituals.
Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
Own your team’s platform roadmap and priorities, balancing stakeholder commitments with long-term scalability, reliability, extensibility, and developer experience.
Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across DraftKings to understand product strategies, integration needs, technical constraints, and future growth plans.
Identify shared needs and translate them into reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce duplicated engineering effort.
Facilitate architectural discussions and design sessions, guiding decisions around service contracts, platform standards, integrations, migrations, and technical tradeoffs.
Serve as the technical point of accountability for your team and dive into code reviews, architecture decisions, or complex troubleshooting when needed.
Promote engineering and operational excellence across the platform, championing reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement.