Senior Bet Engine Engineer — Remote, Scalable & Low-Latency

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive compensation package

Education reimbursements

Job summary

Penn Interactive seeks a senior software engineer to join the Bet Engine family, building scalable, low-latency services powering sportsbook wagering, casino transactions, and the financial ledger. You will own end-to-end design and delivery in an agile environment, mentoring others and collaborating with stakeholders to improve performance, reliability, and data integrity across high-traffic systems.

The role emphasizes production systems, observability, and architectural craftsmanship within a

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, algorithms.
• Experience with production systems at scale and performance tuning.
• On-call rotations and end-to-end release ownership.
• Proficient in modern web frameworks and API development.
• 2+ years designing GraphQL schemas for multi-client surfaces.
• Experience with multi-client / white-label platforms and geo-based routing.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Ability to communicate via tech specs and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design, scale, and tune GraphQL APIs, gRPC services, and SQL queries.
• Own high-scope technical problems and present proposals to leadership.
• Design, architect, and deliver features end-to-end in an agile environment.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive scalability improvements.
• Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in Datadog.
• Mentor engineers through specs, pairing, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across domains to deliver high‑quality products.
• Bridge gaps between internal and external systems; support data migrations and infra.
• Other duties as required.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

Git / GitHub

Testing frameworks

API development

Messaging systems

Elixir

On-call

Tools

ExUnit

RSpec

Jest

pytest

Oban

Exq

Sidekiq

Celery

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

Job description

Penn Interactive seeks a senior software engineer to join the Bet Engine family, building scalable, low-latency services powering sportsbook wagering, casino transactions, and the financial ledger. You will own end-to-end design and delivery in an agile environment, mentoring others and collaborating with stakeholders to improve performance, reliability, and data integrity across high-traffic systems.

The role emphasizes production systems, observability, and architectural craftsmanship within a