PENN Entertainment, Inc. [https://www.pennentertainment.com/] 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 [https://about.espnbet.com/], Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet
Sportsbook & Casino [https://thescore.bet/], or theScore
[https://www.thescore.com/] 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: 1
Specific Hiring Team: TBA
About the Role & Team
As part of the Sportsbook team, you will provide services to enhance our
customers' experience within our Sportsbook platforms. Actively look beyond the
transactional elements of the product and delight our customers by providing the
best experience to find, place, share, track and settle Sportsbook bets. This
role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and
backend development teams to define and deliver first-class sports betting
experience. As a company, we are design and UX-focused, we believe in turning
complex problems into aesthetically beautiful and simple interfaces. This team
has high visibility and develops features that have a direct impact on the
product and the user experience. We iterate quickly so you have plenty of
opportunities to learn & grow technically, but more importantly, we have fun
while doing it.
About the Work
As a key member of the Sportsbook team, you will:
- Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix
LiveView).
- Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and 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.
- 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 services.
- Setting up monitoring and alerting with Datadog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty.
- Other duties as required.
About You
- 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with
various stakeholders, add and maintain documentation and work with other team
members.
- Comfortable working in the terminal.
- Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
- Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
- A passion for sports and/or gaming is considered an asset.
- Experience with Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema
stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to
open source software, 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.
