Senior Lead Trading Strategist

As a Senior Lead Trading Strategist, you’ll define and evolve the systems that power real-time market-making and automated trading at scale. You’ll operate at the intersection of quantitative research and production engineering, translating complex market behavior into high-performance trading strategies. Working across teams, you’ll lead the design and development of low-latency systems that price markets, manage risk, and react to high-frequency events. Your work will shape how markets behave, driving innovation and unlocking new opportunities through data-driven strategy and technical leadership.

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous refinement of market-making and trading strategies informed by market microstructure, participant behavior, and risk constraints.
• Translate quantitative research and hypotheses into scalable, production-grade trading systems in close partnership with Engineers, Data Scientists, and fellow Strategists.
• Architect and evolve backtesting frameworks that accurately model execution, liquidity dynamics, and behavioral responses.
• Develop and oversee real-time decision engines that price markets, optimize inventory, and react to high-frequency event streams.
• Set technical direction for trading systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability in production environments.
• Contribute on monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for live systems, enabling rapid diagnosis and resolution of anomalies.
• Communicate strategy vision, system behavior, and business impact clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decision-making across teams.

• At least 7 years of experience in machine learning, quantitative modeling, or algorithmic strategy development. (required)
• Experience working with automated trading systems, prediction markets, sports betting, or crypto and decentralized finance environments. (required)
• Strong proficiency in Python (including NumPy, Pandas, and PyTorch) and experience with C++, C#, Java, or Rust for performance-critical systems. (required)
• Deep expertise in market making, market microstructure, liquidity modeling, and risk-aware optimization. (required)
• Strong foundation in statistical and probabilistic modeling, including time-series analysis and signal evaluation. (required)
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence cross-functional teams. (required)

• Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
• Free access to wellbeing programs such as free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, Virtual Yoga Classes, and many more.
• 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
• Partnership with Care.com for care finder and backup childcare for U.S. employees.
• Range of benefits that support family planning, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning.
• Flexible PTO for employees working in the United States.
• Pet insurance to help save on vet expenses for accidents, illnesses, and more.
• Gym reimbursement for part of your gym membership once enrolled in a health insurance plan.
• 401(k) matching and programs such as Origin Financial to help plan for your financial future.
• Commuter benefits to help lower costs on your daily commute.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program for eligible team members for educational courses related to their positions or another position at DraftKings.
• Bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
• US base salary range: 184,000.00 USD - 230,000.00 USD.