Senior Full-Stack Engineer — AI-Driven Gaming Platform (Austin)

Churchill Downs Incorporated; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Churchill Downs Incorporated, based in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly available front-end and back-end systems supporting our gaming platform. This in-office role offers collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations to deliver scalable, secure software in a regulated environment.

The position requires strong full-stack experience, AI tooling familiarity, and leadership in code reviews, CI/CD, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Extensive experience as a full-stack developer building high-availability applications.
• Experience with NoSQL and/or relational database design and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience designing systems that manage real-time data and transactions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain front-end and back-end services for Exacta’s gaming platform.
• Own major components or services within the system architecture.
• Enthusiastic and experienced with AI-assisted development and modern AI coding tools.
• Contribute to system design discussions focused on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and Operations to deliver new gaming functionality.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices across the team.
• Assist in planning, estimation, and execution of engineering initiatives.

Skills

Full-stack development

Mentoring

Collaboration

Effective communicator

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

NodeJS/TypeScript

React

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Git & GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS & on‑prem

HTML/SCSS/Material UI

Job description

Churchill Downs Incorporated, based in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly available front-end and back-end systems supporting our gaming platform. This in-office role offers collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations to deliver scalable, secure software in a regulated environment.

The position requires strong full-stack experience, AI tooling familiarity, and leadership in code reviews, CI/CD, and mentoring.