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.
Work-term: January 5, 2026 - April 24, 2026
Number of Openings: 2
Hiring Teams:
TBA across Casino (iCasino) & Sports Ecosystem (cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms)
About the Work
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.
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
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)
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, passion for sports and/or esports.
What We Offer:
Fun, relaxed work environment
A voice. We're dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the company's culture
A company that encourages a culture of inclusion and diversity
Opportunity to work on large scale consumer-facing applications with millions of users
Career growth. Mentorship from some of the brightest people in the industry
Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email accessibilityoffice@thescore.com
Penn Interactive is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.
