Front-End 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 Sportsbook Growth team is responsible for increasing revenue through personalization and social experiences. We are data-informed which means we rely on metrics and analytics to drive decisions while balancing that with qualitative research. Experimentation is at the heart of how we gather the data we need to optimize features and user flows. We are cross-functional, working closely with product, marketing, and data science teams. We operate across many services and because of that we are looking for folks who can build context quickly, help us create and maintain relationships with service owners, and above all else, we need engineers who are product-oriented.

About the Work

As a key member of the Growth team you will:

• Build front-end applications using modern JavaScript technologies (React, TypeScript).
• Work with the product team to design, architect, and ship customer experience features to our amazing applications.
• Implement polished user interfaces with the help of our design team.
• Improve our code through refactoring and applying modern design patterns.
• Work with other engineers through technical collaboration, discussion, and code review.
• Solve difficult problems related to large data sets and responsive UIs.
• Help our QA team to automate testing and continuous integration.
• Other duties as required

About You

• Experience in software development, specializing in front-end technologies
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, React and general UX Principles
• 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
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• Knowledge and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• 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.
• A passion for sports and/or gaming is considered an asset.
• NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to open source software, 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.