Senior Software Developer @ Penn Interactive

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through ESPN BET, Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team

As a Senior Software Developer on the ESPN Ecosystem team, you’ll enhance the cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms, with the goal of giving users a unified experience in both platforms. Our goal is to offer a seamless sports media and betting experience for sports fans, through intuitive cross product integrations. This team's focus is on both acquiring new users directly from ESPN platforms, as well as delivering opportunities for continuous engagement with ESPN BET through unique integrations that can only be found on ESPN and ESPN BET. This new team has many opportunities to lay the building blocks for the future.

We’re always looking for ways to not only improve our knowledge but also share knowledge throughout the company. This role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and backend development teams to define and deliver a first-class sports betting experience. We also collaborate externally with the ESPN development team, representing PENN. With that, this is a highly visible and critical team in our partnership with ESPN.

About the Work

Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Java)
Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, as well as SQL queries
Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
Collaborate with the team in a system designed to continually define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices
Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative, agile/scrum environment
Collaborate with other teams and various stakeholders to build integrations with other internal and external services.
Setting up monitoring and alerting with Datadog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty
Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
Provide mentorship for education to all our developers when onboarding on our services
Other duties as required.

About You

A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
Experience with a production system at scale
Experience with on-call rotations for a production service
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, maintain documentation, and work with other team members
Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
Comfortable working in the terminal
Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
Proficiency within an editor of your choice
Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL
Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk).
Experience with Object Oriented Programming
Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, and passion for sports.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package
Fun, relaxed work environment
Education and conference reimbursements.
Parental leave top up

#LI-REMOTE

Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Penn Interactive provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Penn Interactive provides best-in-class benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Senior Software Developer

ESPN Ecosystem

Penn Interactive

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