Software Developer

theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.

Work-term: January 6, 2025 - April 25, 2025

Number of Openings: 1

About the Role & Team

The Web Internal Enablement team’s mission is to provide our users with the best possible experience when it comes to browsing our media sites. You’ll be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. We’re also a team that enjoys learning and sharing knowledge. We like to keep our documentation up to date and take time out of our day to learn new technologies.

About the Work

As a key member of our Web Internal Enablement team, you will:

• Work on multiple projects to strengthen the ecosystem of products under the PENN brand.
• Help drive user acquisition through SEO.
• Support the development and maintenance of features for theScore’s media sites.
• Experiment with new technologies that will decrease our build or CI times.
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Improve feedback loops around accessibility, performance, visual regression and error monitoring.
• Collaborate with the team to define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices for web applications.

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design.
• Experience with frontend technologies (TypeScript, React, NextJS, GraphQL, Jest, e2e testing, build tools).
• You pay attention to the details.
• You think deeply about systems and can debug problems that span systems.
• You’re a curious person who loves to dive deep into the internals of different libraries.
• You love to keep updated with web technologies and share what you learn with teammates.
• You’re a great communicator, both verbal and written.

What We Offer:

• Fun, relaxed work environment
• A voice. We're dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the company's culture
• A company that encourages a culture of inclusion and diversity
• Opportunity to work on large scale consumer-facing applications with millions of users
• Career growth. Mentorship from some of the brightest people in the industry

Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email accessibilityoffice@thescore.com

theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.