Software Developer, Sportsbook Wagering (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: 2 

Hiring Teams: 

• Wagering Pre Placement & Wagering Bet Placement 

About the Team:

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a 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 theScore!

Your role will span across the Sportsbook Wagering team which involves enhancing and supporting the markets we offer, the bet placement flow, cash out, bet settlement and many other wagering related features. This role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and mobile development teams to define and deliver first-class sports betting mobile experience. As a company, we are design and UX-focused, and we believe in turning complex problems into aesthetically beautiful and simple interfaces. Wagering is high visibility and develops features core to our business so there are lots of areas where you can make a big impact. We like to iterate quickly so we have plenty of opportunities for you to learn & grow technically but more importantly, we should have fun while doing it.

About the Work:

As a key member of our Wagering team you will:

• Work with the product team to design, architect, and ship wagering 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:

• 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 (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Node).
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Sidekiq, Celery, RabbitMQ).
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent

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.