Senior Android Developer, Mobile Platform

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 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 mobile experience is essential at Penn Interactive/theScore. The Mobile Platform team provides the foundation for our mobile clients and enables our mobile teams to build and deliver features faster and with high quality. This team is responsible for the overall developer experience on both iOS and Android as we strive to leverage the latest capabilities of each platform. We embrace collaboration to drive new architecture and improve the iOS community at Penn Interactive/theScore. The Mobile Platform team uses creativity and innovation to build tools, patterns and infrastructure that accelerate and delight our mobile developers. If you are passionate about iOS development and enjoy making mobile development faster, efficient and delightful, we’d love to hear from you! 

About the Work

As a key member of our Mobile Platform team you will:

• Work with the product team to design, architect, and ship our amazing applications.
• Collaborate with Android developers to improve the development experience.
• Improve our code through refactoring and applying modern design patterns.
• Work with other engineers through technical collaboration, discussion, and code review.
• Create efficiencies by building custom and innovative mobile tooling.
• Maintain and enhance the mobile CI/CD pipeline and tooling.
• Solve difficult problems related to large data sets and responsive UIs.
• Help our QA team to automate testing and continuous integration.
• Keep up to date with the latest advances in Android development.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• 4+ years experience with Kotlin (our apps are 100% Kotlin!)
• 5+ years experience in commercial Native Android development
• A demonstrated ability in delivering clean, organized, testable, and highly performant code.
• A solid understanding of the Android Architecture Principles and good practices.
• Experience working with Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with Coroutines and Dependency Injection.
• Highly proficient with profiling, troubleshooting and optimizing app performance.
• Experience integrating APIs and back-end services with mobile applications.
• Experience writing Unit and UI tests.
• Experience working with Git. 
• Experience working with large native code bases with significant complexity.
• Solid knowledge of object-oriented design, software development principles, and design patterns.
• Solid knowledge of concurrency best practices and pitfalls.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or equivalent experience.
• A passion for sports and/or gaming is considered an asset.

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, we 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.