Senior Software Developer, Vegas Trading

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.

About the Role & Team

As part of the team, you will be working with a distributed 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 Vegas Trading team builds and maintains a key component of our platform.  We develop tools for our internal traders to manage our risk and exposure as bets are being placed.  We integrate with third parties and the rest of the platform to ingest, in real time, market and wager data.  Our team operates with very rigorous constraints around latency, throughput and up-time.

About the Work

As a key member of our Vegas Trading team you will:

• Work with our preferred technology stack of Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView. 
• We use Phoenix LiveView to build our admin portal and Commanded to support an event sourced architecture.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place (we’re heavy DataDog users).
• Build internal web tools in Phoenix and LiveView to help other employees visualize and debug our data and systems.
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Deploy services and applications to Google Cloud.
• Participate in our on-call rotation so that we can triage critical issues during off-business hours.
• Other duties as required.

In your role as a Senior Engineer, you’ll also be impacting technical work outside of the Trading team:

• Identify issues and opportunities within our tech platform and create plans to tackle them.
• Lead discussions and meetings around technical decisions that span multiple teams.
• Set an example for other engineers by collaborating across teams.
• Be a partner to the tech lead and engineering manager in helping set the direction of the team.
• Demonstrate proficiency of the team’s primary tech stack, tooling, and architecture such that you can implement ideas and lead wide-ranging projects effectively.

About You

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, and software design.
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
• Experience with modern web framework and API development
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Comfortable working in the terminal.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
• Experience working with profiling tools.
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.

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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