Winter 2026, Spring 2026

Software Developer – Coop

Platform Engineering

Posted on 9/10/2025

theScore

theScore

501-1,000 employees

Sports media app with mobile betting

No salary listed

Toronto, ON, Canada

In Person

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Datadog
RabbitMQ
gRPC
Agile
Elixir
MySQL
Git
Data Structures & Algorithms
Jest
SQL
Apache Kafka
Postgres
GraphQL
SCRUM
Celery
Requirements
  • 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
  • Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, add and maintain documentation and work with other team members
  • 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)
Responsibilities
  • Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Quarkus)
  • Support develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries
  • Help solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
  • Help 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 help build integrations with other internal and external services
  • Help set 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
  • Other duties as required.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Kafka
  • Building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe)
  • Hexagonal architecture
  • Domain Driven Development
  • Contribution to open source software
  • Experience working at startups
  • Passion for sports and/or esports

theScore is a digital media company that combines live sports coverage with mobile sports betting. Its main product is a mobile app that provides real-time scores, news, and updates across sports, and also includes theScore Bet, an integrated betting platform. Revenue comes from advertising, sponsorships, and betting transactions. The app fuels engagement by delivering timely sports content and easy-to-use betting inside one experience, primarily serving users in New Jersey, Indiana, and Colorado. TheScore differentiates itself by merging sports media and gaming in a single app, targeting both casual fans and serious bettors with real-time updates and built-in betting options. Its goal is to grow as a unified sports media and betting platform in the U.S. market.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • theScore Bet expanded to Iowa and Ontario, growing U.S. and Canadian footprint.
  • Pre-registration opened in Alberta ahead of new regulated betting market.
  • Media app persists in exited markets like Washington DC for ongoing engagement.

What critics are saying

  • FanDuel's 42% market share starves theScore Bet revenue in NJ, IN, CO.
  • DraftKings AI fantasy launch March 15, 2026 pulls theScore's 4-5M users.
  • PGCB denied PA license January 20, 2026 over AML controls, blocking $5B market.

What makes theScore unique

  • theScore fuses real-time sports scores with integrated betting in one app.
  • Penn Entertainment acquired theScore in October 2021 for digital sports media.
  • theScore Bet operates in 21 U.S. jurisdictions post-rebranding December 2024.

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Benefits

Professional Development Budget

Conference Attendance Budget

Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

6%
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Mar 1st, 2021
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