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Staff Software Developer

PENN Entertainment, Inc

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in a software engineering role
  • Strong experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
  • Familiarity with caching strategies and the tradeoffs involved in applying them at scale
  • Experience with high-throughput or real-time domains such as sports betting, gaming, or financial services

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of new platform capabilities in a collaborative agile environment
  • Build, support, and maintain key services that drive our Federated GraphQL API and regulatory compliance tooling
  • Drive integrations with internal services by partnering closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across the organization
  • Own observability practices across our systems, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response

About the company

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PENN Entertainment, Inc

PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN) is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content and casino gaming experiences. A member of the S&P 500®, PENN Entertainment operates 44 properties in 20 states, online sports betting in 13 jurisdictions and iCasino in five under a portfolio of well-recognized brands including Hollywood Casino, L'Auberge, Barstool Sportsbook and theScore Bet. PENN Entertainment’s highly differentiated strategy, which is focused on organic cross-sell opportunities, is reinforced by its investments in owned technology, including a state-of-the-art media and betting platform and an in-house iCasino content studio. The Company’s portfolio is further bolstered by its industry-leading mychoice customer loyalty program, which offers its over 25 million members a unique set of rewards and experiences across business channels. PENN Entertainment is deeply committed to fostering a culture that welcomes a diverse set of customers and dedicated team members. The Company has been consistently ranked in the top two as “Employer of First Choice” over the last nine years in the Bristol Associates-Spectrum Gaming’s Executive Satisfaction Survey. In addition, as a long-standing good corporate citizen, PENN Entertainment is also committed to being a trusted and valued member of its communities and a responsible steward of our finite natural resources.

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Job description

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 Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, 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
The Enablement team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting foundational services and applications that power our platform. We focus on identifying friction points across our systems and SDLC, and delivering solutions that enable teams to operate more efficiently and autonomously. Our engineers lead cross-team technical efforts for our customer-facing applications, driving solutions that span multiple systems and shape the architecture of our broader ecosystem. We take pride in creating scalable, reliable capabilities that accelerate product delivery and strengthen the platform as a whole. 

About the Work

As a staff engineer on the Enablement team, you will: 

  • Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of new platform capabilities in a collaborative agile environment
  • Build, support, and maintain key services that drive our Federated GraphQL API, event-driven architecture, and regulatory compliance tooling
  • Drive integrations with internal services by partnering closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across the organization
  • Support teams developing features in our customer-facing applications (theScore, theScore Bet, Hollywood Casino) by helping define scope, contributing to technical specs, and identifying edge cases and performance improvements through code and design review
  • Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries
  • Own observability practices across our systems, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response (DataDog, Bugsnag)
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks and areas of systemic risk, and lead efforts to address them before they impact reliability or scale
  • Mentor engineers across the organization and contribute to a culture of technical excellence 

About You

  • 7+ years in a software engineering role 
  • A first-principles thinker who digs into root causes rather than surface symptoms  
  • A track record of owning complex systems end-to-end  
  • Comfortable working across a polyglot codebase that includes Elixir, Java, Rust, and TypeScript  
  • Driven to design, build, and optimize distributed systems that hold up under real-world load 
  • Knows the difference between an API that exposes a data model and one that expresses a domain, and has strong opinions about which to build  
  • A solid foundation in computer science, with deep competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design  
  • Holds teams to a high bar for code quality and architecture, and can articulate why it matters  
  • Strong experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL  
  • Familiarity with caching strategies and the tradeoffs involved in applying them at scale 
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or equivalent 
  • Experience with high-throughput or real-time domains such as sports betting, gaming, or financial services 
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with AI

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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Salary Range
$170,000—$220,000 CAD

Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Penn Interactive provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Penn Interactive provides best-in-class benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

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