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DraftKings Inc.
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 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.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- Proven experience owning architectural components of high-availability, mission-critical platforms.
- 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.
Join Our Team
We’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don’t worry, we’ll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is 185,400.00 USD - 231,800.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.Originally posted on Himalayas
Software Architect (Remote Boston MA)
Foundation EGI
About us
We are an MIT-born, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup building a real-life 'Jarvis'—an AI Copilot for design and manufacturing. Our goal is to utilize advanced AI, physics simulation, and computer graphics to reduce costs and improve engineering productivity across all steps of the design and manufacturing process.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Software Architect to help shape the foundation of our products as we scale. You will lead architecture decisions across our systems, collaborate closely with product and research teams, and drive the delivery of high-impact features across the stack.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, mentoring teams, and building scalable systems at the intersection of AI, simulation, and modern cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture, technical design, and execution strategy for cross-functional engineering initiatives.
Define scalable system designs and establish engineering best practices across the organization.
Partner closely with Product and Research teams to translate ideas into production-ready features.
Break down complex initiatives into clear technical specifications, implementation plans, and delivery milestones.
Mentor engineers and researchers through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, and pair programming.
Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and performance of our platforms and services.
Contribute hands-on to critical parts of the codebase with clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Drive continuous improvements in developer experience, infrastructure, and deployment workflows.
Help foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and collaboration.
What Were Looking for
BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.
Strong experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
Fluency in Python, TypeScript, and SQL.
Experience designing and implementing gRPC and Protobuf-based APIs.
Experience working with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
Strong knowledge of data modeling, performance optimization, and scalable system design.
Familiarity with machine learning including LLMs.
- Experience building Frontends with React.JS.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
Bonus Points
Experience managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
Experience working with CAD software.
Background in computer graphics, simulation, or physics-based systems.
Experience building or working with Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs).
Experience deploying or integrating machine learning systems into production environments.
Familiarity with Kubernetes-based production environments.
Our Tech Stack
Google Cloud, AWS
Python, TypeScript
Protobuf, gRPC
Next.JS, React.JS
GitHub Actions
Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker
PostgreSQL
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