Senior Software Developer, ESPN Ecosystem

PENN Interactive; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online gaming company is seeking a Senior Software Developer to enhance the ESPN Ecosystem. You will work on cutting-edge platforms, improving cross-app experiences between ESPN and ESPN BET. Candidates should have a solid foundation in computer science, experience with production systems, and be passionate about clean code. This role offers a competitive compensation package and a fun work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Fun, relaxed work environment

Education and conference reimbursements

Parental leave top up

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in computer science with experience at scale.
• Experience with on-call rotations for production services.
• Proficient with relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Enhance experiences between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms.
• Develop and optimize gRPC endpoints and SQL queries.
• Mentor developers during onboarding.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Software design

Communication skills

Clean code architecture

PostgreSQL

Git

Asynchronous event handling

Tools

Elixir

Phoenix

gRPC

Datadog

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Developer, ESPN Ecosystem

United States, Remote

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products.

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.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are.

About the Role & Team

As a Senior Software Developer on the ESPN Ecosystem team, you’ll enhance the cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms, with the goal of giving users a unified experience in both platforms.

We’re always looking for ways to not only improve our knowledge but also share knowledge throughout the company.

About the Work

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Java)
• Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, as well as SQL queries
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
• Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
• Collaborate with the team in a system designed to continually define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative, agile/scrum environment
• Collaborate with other teams and various stakeholders to build integrations with other internal and external services.
• Setting up monitoring and alerting with Datadog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty
• Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
• Provide mentorship for education to all our developers when onboarding on our services
• Other duties as required.

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
• Experience with a production system at scale
• Experience with on-call rotations for a production service
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, maintain documentation, and work with other team members
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
• Comfortable working in the terminal
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk).
• Experience with Object Oriented Programming
• Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
• NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, and passion for sports.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up

Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $220,000 USD