Senior Software Engineer, Bet Engine Penn Interactive · Remote US

QuickCruit; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Bet Engine team in a remote US capacity. You will design and scale GraphQL APIs, low-latency services, and SQL queries powering sportsbook wagering and grading engines.

You will own technical problems end-to-end in a collaborative agile environment, identify bottlenecks, set up monitoring in Datadog, and mentor engineers across teams to improve performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development experience with scalable systems.
• Experience with GraphQL, gRPC and SQL in production.
• Familiarity with monitoring and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect and deliver GraphQL APIs, gRPC services, and SQL queries powering wagering and ledger systems.
• Own technical problems of high scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting to leadership.
• Design end-to-end features in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Identify bottlenecks and risks in production, driving improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Set up robust monitoring and alerting (Datadog) and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

GraphQL

gRPC

SQL

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Job description

# Senior Software Engineer, Bet EnginePenn Interactive · Remote USTailor My ResumeStart free. No credit card.### About the JobPENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.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. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are.About the Team As part of the Bet Engine team, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our goal is to deliver and maintain the performant, resilient, accurate, best-in-class software platform to drive sportsbook wagering, sportsbook grading, casino wagering, financial recordkeeping, data residency, and regulatory enforcement that is at the core of everything we do as a company. As a result, our stakeholders span the entire range of the business, and we must support them with whatever they are required to deliver without sacrificing the quality and performance we strive to maintain. This will include building a lot of cross-service integrations, with internal and external stakeholders. We are also hyper-vigilant about software performance, resilience, reliability, and accuracy, constantly tracking risks and regressions on all fronts, and proposing improvements where opportunities exist. The systems we own are among the most business-critical at PENN: every wager, payout, and ledger entry runs through them, and getting them right is a regulatory obligation, not just an engineering goal.### About the company* Design, scale, and performance-tune GraphQL APIs, low-latency gRPC services, and SQL queries powering the sportsbook wagering and grading engine, the casino transaction engine, the financial ledger, responsible gaming enforcement, tax enforcement, general regulatory enforcement, promotional records, and risk management, among other things.* Own technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting them to leadership and partner teams for feedback* Design, architect, and deliver new features end-to-end in a collaborative agile/scrum environment* Identify bottlenecks and areas of risk in production, and drive the changes that make the platform more scalable* Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in Datadog for the systems you own* Mentor engineers on the team and across teams that ship into our codebase, through specs, pairing, and code review