Senior Software Engineer, iCasino
About The Position
PENN Entertainment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its iCasino team. This role involves working on cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products, specifically focusing on delivering a best-in-class online casino experience across Hollywood Casino, theScore Casino, and theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino. The iCasino team integrates with third-party game providers, supports client developers, manages real-money wagering flows, and builds tools for casino operations and marketing stakeholders. The team prides itself on delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software engineering
- 2+ Years of experience building applications in Elixir is required
- 2+ Years of experience designing and evolving GraphQL schemas
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design
- Strong grasp of production systems at scale, and experience identifying areas of improvement in a production environment through load testing and tracing
- Experience investigating and remediating production performance regressions, including CPU hotspots and latency regressions in high-throughput services
- Experience with on-call rotations for a production service, including owning release cycles end-to-end
- Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of authoring tech specs, runbooks, and cross-team design docs that stand up to scrutiny
- A strong grasp of relational databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Experience with Kubernetes and comfort operating services in a containerized environment
- Comfortable working in the terminal, with Git and GitHub or similar, and in an editor of your choice
- Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or equivalent
- Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk)
- Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
Nice To Haves
- Experience in iCasino, sports betting or another regulated real-money domain
- Familiarity with game provider and wallet integrations
- Hexagonal architecture
- Domain Driven Development
- Contribution to open source software
- Experience working at startups
- Passion for casino gaming, sports and/or esports
Responsibilities
- Design, scale, and performance-tune GraphQL APIs, low-latency gRPC services, and SQL queries powering the casino lobby, game launch, and real-money wagering flows
- Own technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting them to leadership and partner teams for feedback
- Design, architect, and deliver new features and game provider integrations end-to-end in a collaborative agile/scrum environment
- Identify bottlenecks and areas of risk in production, and drive the changes that make the platform more scalable
- Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in DataDog for the systems you own
- Mentor engineers on the team and across teams that ship into our codebase, through specs, pairing, and code review
- Other duties as required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- Education and conference reimbursements
- Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
- Best-in-class benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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