Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

The Crown Is Yours As a Senior Software Engineer, Go, you'll help build the technology powering DraftKings Exchange, a new business vertical at the intersection of technology, financial markets, and entertainment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services using Go that power critical financial exchange functionality.
• Develop distributed systems capable of supporting high-volume, low-latency transaction processing and real-time market activity.
• Partner with Product, Data, Trading Ops, and Engineering teams to deliver new features and capabilities that enhance the exchange experience.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of core platform services, ensuring performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Optimize system performance through thoughtful design, profiling, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish engineering best practices through code reviews, technical mentorship, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Identify and resolve complex production challenges while improving observability, monitoring, and system reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any relevant combination of education, experience, and training.
• At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated expertise developing applications and services in Go; professional Golang experience is required.
• Hands-on experience with FIX protocol connectivity in automated trading, exchange, or market data systems.
• A track record of designing and building distributed systems that prioritize scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and system design principles for high-throughput applications.
• Experience working with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and modern infrastructure platforms.
• Proficiency with both relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques, monitoring strategies, and operational best practices for mission-critical systems.
• Experience building financial exchanges, trading platforms, market infrastructure, or other high-frequency transaction systems is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in Go development.
• Experience with FIX protocol.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with microservices and API design.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with performance optimization and monitoring.
• Experience with financial exchanges or trading platforms.

Skills

• Go programming language.
• FIX protocol.
• Cloud-native architectures.
• Microservices and API design.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Performance optimization and monitoring.
• Financial exchanges or trading platforms.

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Generous vacation and sick leave.

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 119,500.00 USD - 149,400.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.

Schedule

Full-time position.