Software Developer, Sportsbook Growth (Coop) - S2025

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through ESPN BET, Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

Work-term: May 5, 2025 - August 22, 2025

Number of Openings: 1

About the 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: 

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView).
• Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity.
• Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage.
• 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.
• 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.
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• A passion for sports and/or gaming is considered an asset.
• Nice to Have: experience with modern backend web frameworks and relational databases 

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.