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# Software Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** DraftKings
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Data Stores, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Backend, Api Design, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c3cb52e2c0079eab

## About the Role

* 2+ years of software engineering experience 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
 * Exposure to working in a team-based environment, through internships, projects, or prior roles
 * A passion for building great software and improving continuously.

## Description

* 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 Engineering tooling, data pipelines, and dashboards
 * 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


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