About this role

Design and build internal tools and services in Python that surface engineering metrics and organizational insights
Lead the technical strategy for measuring AI impact across DraftKings
Own features end-to-end — from requirements through deployment and observability
Partner with engineering leadership, data, and delivery teams to define what to measure and how to act on it
Set technical direction within your squad and contribute to cross-team architectural decisions
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing

4+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years in Python
Experience building internal tools, data pipelines, or analytics-adjacent services
Comfortable working with APIs, data stores, and dashboarding/visualization layers
Solid engineering fundamentals writing maintainable and tested code while thinking carefully about data modeling
Track record of owning and delivering complex projects with ambiguous requirements
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate fuzzy organizational questions into concrete technical solutions

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

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