Backend Engineer, Penn Game Studios

Penn Interactive

45d•$90,000 - $125,000•Remote

About The Position

Penn Game Studios (PGS) is searching for an experienced and enthusiastic backend engineer to work on our cutting edge remote gaming systems. Work often includes writing rules engines, adding and maintaining platform features, and writing tools to help our internal and external teams. The right candidate will promote best practices and work closely with project managers to define and prioritize tasks

Requirements

2+ Years of software engineering experience is required
Experience with standard back end technologies (such as SQL, Key-Value Caching, HTTP) is required
Practical knowledge of scalable server architectures.
Practical knowledge of threads, microservices, and distributed locking.
Excellent communication skills.
Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to solve technical problems with practical constraints.
Experience with Go is required
Experience with Docker and / or Kubernetes is required
Experience Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python, Objective-C, Smalltalk or similar required.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of statistics and probability is a plus.

Responsibilities

Write best in class code for our game and platform servers.
Use data storage layers, such as PostgreSQL and Redis, to store and cache important data.
Work closely with the platform and dev ops team to implement new functionality.
Manage tasks and communicate with producers and teammates.
Work with teammates to design high quality solutions for novel problems.
Research and apply new technologies when appropriate.
Maintain technical documentation of solutions.
Work with client engineers to define API contracts and troubleshoot issues
Other duties as assigned