Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Sportsbook Platform

Penn Interactive; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 145.000 - 193.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation package

Education and conference reimburse- m-

Opportunities for career progression

Descripción de la vacante

Penn Interactive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Sportsbook Platform. This remote role is based in the United States and focuses on building scalable backend services and real-time APIs powering theScore Bet and related platforms.

You will design, scale, and monitor high-throughput systems, collaborate with iOS/Android teams, and mentor peers. The team emphasizes outcomes, versioned contracts, and responsible AI usage in development.

Formación

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or API systems.
• Experience designing APIs used by multiple clients with versioning and backward compatibility.
• Comfortable learning native mobile tech and collaborating with mobile teams.
• Proven ability to build real-time features and diagnose production performance issues.
• Strong CS fundamentals and distributed systems knowledge.

Responsabilidades

• Design, scale, and tune APIs and real-time delivery behind them.
• Collaborate with mobile leads to keep client models in sync and plan migrations.
• Build and operate fast, correct services under high throughput and bursty load.
• Identify bottlenecks, implement monitoring, and drive platform scale improvements.
• Write tests, draft tech specs, runbooks, and mentor teammates.

Conocimientos

Backend APIs

Real-time services

AI coding agents

API versioning

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Herramientas

Phoenix

Ruby on Rails

FastAPI

Kubernetes

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Descripción del empleo

Penn Interactive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Sportsbook Platform. This remote role is based in the United States and focuses on building scalable backend services and real-time APIs powering theScore Bet and related platforms.

You will design, scale, and monitor high-throughput systems, collaborate with iOS/Android teams, and mentor peers. The team emphasizes outcomes, versioned contracts, and responsible AI usage in development.