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 Foundations 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. 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 Foundations team, you will:

• Work with our preferred technology stack, primarily Elixir/Phoenix, LiveView.
• Develop, scale, and optimize GraphQL & RESTful APIs.
• Support web and mobile clients as part of our backend service teams.
• Communicate with a community of engineers and third-party vendors.
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Take part in other duties as required.

About You

As a co-op, you have

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design.
• A passion for clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Proficiency with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix).
• Consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
• Familiarity with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp of relational databases, including PostgreSQL.
• An understanding of background job processing
• Competency working in the terminal and with a code editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Involvement with profiling tools.

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.