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Data Engineer, Coop - W2025

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: 2

Hiring Teams: 

  • Data Services
  • Data Lake
About the Role & Team
 
As part of the theScore Data Engineering team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Data Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists determined to develop high-quality and sustainable data-driven solutions to improve profitability, growth and the user experience. You’ll work hand in hand with the Analytics & Reporting teams to develop and maintain data pipelines. Internally develop tools to improve workflows and automate processes wherever possible. The ideal candidate has a passion for data, a strong background in data engineering, database management & computer science. An interest in professional sports, betting and/or eSports is a plus.
 
About the Work
  • Collaborate with Data Science, Reporting, Analytics and other engineering teams to build data pipelines, infrastructure and tooling to support business initiatives
  • Oversee the design and maintenance of data pipelines and contribute to the continual enhancement of the data engineering architecture
  • Collaborate with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals
  • Write out tests and thorough documentation for processes and tooling
  • Adapt to working with new technologies and frameworks, sometimes headlining the investigation into their usefulness to the team
  • Maintain and expand existing systems, tooling and infrastructure
  • Collaborate with other members of the Analytics and Reporting teams or others within the company
  • Other duties as required.
About You
  • A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience in SQL and other Relational Databases
  • Been part of a data-driven team
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Good knowledge of Math (e.g. data modeling/applied statistics)
  • Experience with data ingestion APIs (e.g. Facebook, Google)
  • Experience with Airflow
  • Experience with RedShift, Snowflake or other SQL-based data warehouses
  • Experience with Event-based architectures is a plus
  • Experience building out a scalable infrastructure to fit the needs of a growing company

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

 

 

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.

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