Software Developer, Promotions (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: 1

About the Role & Team 

As part of the Promotions Core team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers and Product Managers.  Our mission is to increase user acquisition, retention, and engagement through building new reward-based experiences in-app, as well as providing marketing with the tools they need to spread the message. 

Typical Day at theScore: 

As a key member of Promotions Core team you will: 

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView). 
• Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC APIs.
• Build and improve functionality ued by our Marketing Ops team
• Optimize our Promotions service to improve our handling of our fast-increasing userbase.
• 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.
• 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).
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Experience with Git/GitHub or similar.
• Experience with automated testing concepts, and frameworks similar to ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL. 

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.