Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Working with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir/Phoenix, LiveView and/or Ruby on Rails).
• Develop, scale, and optimize amazing GraphQL, RESTful APIs and gRPC as required by individual services.
• Be part of our backend service teams supporting web and mobile clients.
• Willingness to learn and work with modern JavaScript technologies (react, TypeScript) from time to time to build front-end applications.
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design.
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Node).
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySql.
• Experience with background job processing (Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Experience working with profiling tools.
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.
• Consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
• NICE TO HAVE: Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.

Benefits

• Ship features that impact millions of users.
• Work on large distributed systems spanning public cloud and on-prem locations.
• Learn how to manage workloads, at scale, running on Kubernetes.
• Contribute to a federated GraphQL API used by millions of clients.
• Top of the line office hardware.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.