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

As part of the DevEx: Enablement team, you are passionate about team empowerment and optimizing productivity. In this role, you will support spearheading initiatives to streamline onboarding processes, enhance knowledge sharing, minimize context switching, and optimize feedback loops throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Your primary focus will be empowering our teams to work more efficiently and effectively, ultimately leading to higher satisfaction and productivity.

About the Work

• Use our internal developer portal to ensure standards are met across the engineering organization
• Work closely with engineering teams to take the best of what they know and make it global within the engineering org
• Design and implement solutions to improve time-to-onboard for new developers joining teams, reduce the time required to find answers and information, minimize context switching between tooling, and shorten feedback loops in the SDLC process
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their workflows and challenges, and provide guidance and support in implementing productivity-enhancing practices and tools
• Support implementation of metrics to measure both qualitative and quantitative baselines and improvements in team productivity, satisfaction, and flow state
• Support training sessions and workshops to educate team members on best practices, tools, and techniques for maximizing productivity and maintaining a state of flow
• Keep up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to team productivity and leverage this knowledge to drive continuous improvement initiatives

About You

• Software engineering experience, with a focus on optimizing team productivity and collaboration
• Experience using Elixir, TypeScript, or Java
• Experience with build tooling and automated testing
• Experience with IaaS/IaaC tools
• Experience with CI/CD tools
• Experience implementing solutions to improve onboarding processes, knowledge sharing, tooling, and feedback loops
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• You enjoy helping teams collaborate more effectively and efficiently
• Passion for continuous learning and personal development

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.