Penn Interactive
Media, Gaming & EntertainmentDirect Greenhouse career site

Staff Software Developer

Pay
$170,000 – $220,000 per year
Location
Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
7+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Elixir
  • Java
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL

Also useful

  • Kubernetes
  • DataDog
  • Bugsnag
  • ExUnit
  • RSpec
  • Jest
  • pytest

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 Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, 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

The Enablement team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting foundational services and applications that power our platform. We focus on identifying friction points across our systems and SDLC, and delivering solutions that enable teams to operate more efficiently and autonomously. Our engineers lead cross-team technical efforts for our customer-facing applications, driving solutions that span multiple systems and shape the architecture of our broader ecosystem. We take pride in creating scalable, reliable capabilities that accelerate product delivery and strengthen the platform as a whole.

About You

  • 7+ years in a software engineering role
  • A first-principles thinker who digs into root causes rather than surface symptoms
  • A track record of owning complex systems end-to-end
  • Comfortable working across a polyglot codebase that includes Elixir, Java, Rust, and TypeScript
  • Driven to design, build, and optimize distributed systems that hold up under real-world load
  • Knows the difference between an API that exposes a data model and one that expresses a domain, and has strong opinions about which to build
  • A solid foundation in computer science, with deep competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design
  • Holds teams to a high bar for code quality and architecture, and can articulate why it matters
  • Strong experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
  • Familiarity with caching strategies and the tradeoffs involved in applying them at scale
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or equivalent
  • Experience with high-throughput or real-time domains such as sports betting, gaming, or financial services
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with AI

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Fun, relaxed work environment
  • Education and conference reimbursements.
  • Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

#LI-REMOTE

Salary Range $170,000—$220,000 USD

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.

About the Work

As a staff engineer on the Enablement team, you will

  • Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of new platform capabilities in a collaborative agile environment
  • Build, support, and maintain key services that drive our Federated GraphQL API, event-driven architecture, and regulatory compliance tooling
  • Drive integrations with internal services by partnering closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across the organization
  • Support teams developing features in our customer-facing applications (theScore, theScore Bet, Hollywood Casino) by helping define scope, contributing to technical specs, and identifying edge cases and performance improvements through code and design review
  • Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries
  • Own observability practices across our systems, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response (DataDog, Bugsnag)
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks and areas of systemic risk, and lead efforts to address them before they impact reliability or scale
  • Mentor engineers across the organization and contribute to a culture of technical excellence
Read the original posting

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