Staff Software Developer

Penn Interactive (PI) is an interactive gaming company headquartered in Philadelphia. PI is the digital arm of PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), the largest regional casino operator in the U.S.). Our mission is to challenge the norms of the gaming industry by building an immersive interactive gaming experience that is responsible, innovative, and fun. We are committed to helping our team members grow and succeed. We believe that hiring talented individuals that love what they do will help us win!

About the Role & Team

As part of the Penn Interactive team, you will be working with a distributed team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it’s like to work at Penn Interactive!

The Trading team builds and maintains a key component of our platform. We develop tools for our internal traders to manage our risk and exposure as bets are being placed. We integrate with third parties and the rest of the platform to ingest, in real time, market and wager data. Our team operates with very rigorous constraints around latency, throughput and up-time.

About the Work

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView)
• Develop, scale, and optimize feed integrations, gRPC endpoints, and SQL queries
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, often presenting proposals for solutions to leadership and other teams for feedback
• Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
• Collaborate & educate the team in a system designed to continually define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment
• Collaborate with other teams and various stakeholders to build integrations with other internal services.
• Setting up monitoring and alerting with DataDog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty, Splunk
• Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
• Support teams developing features in our codebase by helping define the required work, assisting in specs, as well as identifying edge cases and performance improvements through code review
• Provide mentorship and be a resource for education to all our developers

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
• Strong grasp and experience with production systems at scale. Experience identifying areas of improvement in a production environment through load testing and monitoring
• Experience with on-call rotations for a production service
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, add and maintain documentation and work with other team members
• Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Laravel, Node)
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
• Experience with kubernetes
• Comfortable working in the terminal
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk).
• Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
• NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Kafka,hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

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Recently being recognized as a top workplace in the United States, _w_e believe people work their best when they can be themselves. We are looking for hungry, innovative thinkers to help us challenge the status quo of the gaming industry. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to all of our processes, programs, and structures. Your story, who you are, and your experience matter here.