Senior API Engineer, Real-Time Sportsbook Platform (Remote)

SportsTechJobs; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Education reimbursements

Career progression

Job summary

Penn Interactive is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Sportsbook Platform. Work remotely across the United States on backend/API systems powering theScore Bet and related platforms. You will design scalable APIs, ship real-time features, and collaborate with mobile/web teams.

You will mentor teammates, review code, and contribute to tech specs and runbooks while leveraging AI coding agents to enhance productivity. This role offers a strong focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend/API focus.
• Experience designing and evolving APIs used by multiple clients (iOS/Android/web).
• Experience building real-time features and low-latency systems.
• Comfortable using AI coding agents and reviewing their output.

Responsibilities

• Design, scale, and tune APIs and real-time delivery behind them.
• Own features end to end from API to the client screens.
• Mentor teammates through code reviews and pair programming.
• Draft tech specs, runbooks, and present proposals to leaders.

Skills

APIs & backend design

Real-time features

Distributed systems

Code review & mentoring

Git & GitHub

Tools

Phoenix

Ruby on Rails

FastAPI

Laravel

Node.js

Job description

Penn Interactive is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Sportsbook Platform. Work remotely across the United States on backend/API systems powering theScore Bet and related platforms. You will design scalable APIs, ship real-time features, and collaborate with mobile/web teams.

You will mentor teammates, review code, and contribute to tech specs and runbooks while leveraging AI coding agents to enhance productivity. This role offers a strong focus on performance and reliability.