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Software Engineering Manager, Backend

Posted 9 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Canada
Senior level
Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Canada
Senior level
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team focused on API service improvements and scalability, providing career guidance and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to enhance product functionality.
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We're defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
Here, "impossible" isn't part of our vocabulary. You'll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career. They're worth it. Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers.
The Crown Is Yours
DraftKings is growing quickly, and we're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Online Sportsbook team. In this role, you'll work closely with the team's current Product Owners, Delivery and Project managers, and Architects while owning the engineering roadmap and providing career guidance to the team. Your team will focus on improving the quality, efficiency, resilience, and scalability of our API services and will see the immediate impact of your work during live sporting events.
What you'll do as a Software Engineering Manager:

  • You will lead and manage a team of engineers supporting our Online Sportsbook
  • Support the engineers on your team through career development and continuous feedback.
  • Drive technical discovery through collaboration with your team and the larger Sportsbook organization.
  • Design and implement software alongside your team members when necessary.
  • Collaborate with business leads across the company to define milestones and deliveries for new functionality to be added to existing applications.
  • Take an active part in improving and optimizing the system's core.
  • Care about agility as much as you care about scalability-we continue to launch products very quickly and are looking for a team that can pivot at a moment's notice.
  • Work with your team under quick deadlines to design, build, and deliver innovative applications.
  • Ensure alignment with software development standards and methodologies.
  • Analyze and improve monitoring and tooling systems to control our APIs across 10+ data centers.
  • Facilitate production issues as incident commander and be part of a cross-functional team with end-to-end responsibility for the final product.


What you'll bring:

  • 7+ years of working experience with statically typed, object-oriented, compiled languages
  • 5+ years of working experience with API development in a microservice architecture
  • Experience managing a small team of engineers and working with stakeholders and contributing to product definition.
  • Experienced in cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog, ELK, and NewRelic
  • Understanding of large scale, distributed systems


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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.

Top Skills

Api Development
Cloud Infrastructure
Datadog
Elk
Kubernetes
Microservice Architecture
Newrelic
Object-Oriented Programming

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