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 Casino Engagement team at theScore, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our goal is to provide our users with the best experience when it comes to online Casino. The Casino team deals with integrating with third party providers, supporting our client developers with everything they need to be able to view and launch games, and ensuring we have highly reliable and. We take pride in delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions. We’re always looking for ways to not only improve our knowledge but also share knowledge throughout the company.

About the Work

As a key member of our Casino Engagement team you will:

• Working with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir/Phoenix, LiveView)
• Develop, scale, and optimize amazing GraphQL & RESTful APIs.
• Be part of our backend service teams supporting web and mobile clients.
• Proficiency in communication
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design.
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix) or rtrong understanding of JavaScript, React
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
• Experience with background job processing
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Experience working with profiling tools.
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.
• Consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
• NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), functional programming, Domain Driven Development, and desire to contribute to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.

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.