Senior Software Engineer, Promotions
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work model
- Remote
- Location
- United States, Remote
- Posted
- 8d ago
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<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://www.pennentertainment.com/">PENN Entertainment, Inc.</a> 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.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://about.hollywoodcasino.com/">Hollywood Casino</a>, <a href="https://thescore.bet/">theScore Bet Sportsbook</a>, or <a href="https://www.thescore.com/">theScore</a> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>About the Team</strong><br>As part of the Promotions team, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our goal is to deliver best-in-class promotional capabilities that empower marketing leaders to create compelling offers and give guests standout experiences. The Promotions team deals with integrating with third party providers, supporting our client developers with everything they need to be able to view and launch promotions, games, and building tools to support our marketing and operations stakeholders with configuring the perfect user experience. Importantly, we take great pride in delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions. </p> <p><strong>About the Work</strong><br>• Design, scale, and performance-tune GraphQL APIs, low-latency gRPC services, and SQL queries powering the promotions engine<br>• Own technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting them to leadership and partner teams for feedback<br>• Design, architect, and deliver new features end-to-end in a collaborative agile/scrum environment<br>• Identify bottlenecks and areas of risk in production, and drive the changes that make the platform more scalable<br>• Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in DataDog for the systems you own<br>• Mentor engineers on the team and across teams that ship into our codebase, through specs, pairing, and code review<br>• Other duties as required.</p> <p><strong>About You </strong><br>• You possess a minimum of 5 years of experience in Software engineering<br>• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design<br>• Strong grasp of production systems at scale, and experience identifying areas of improvement in a production environment through load testing and tracing<br>• Experience investigating and remediating production performance regressions, including CPU hotspots and latency regressions in high-throughput services<br>• Experience with on-call rotations for a production service, including owning release cycles end-to-end<br>• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship<br>• 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<br>• Experience with modern web frameworks and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Fast API, Laravel, Node)<br>• 2+ Years of experience designing and evolving GraphQL schemas for product surfaces used by multiple clients (iOS, Android, Web)<br>• Experience building and integrating multi-client / white-label platforms, including geo-based routing and per-client configuration<br>• A strong grasp of relational databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL<br>• Experience with Kubernetes and comfort operating services in a containerized environment<br>• Comfortable working in the terminal, with Git and GitHub or similar, and in an editor of your choice<br>• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or equivalent<br>• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk)<br>• Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)<br>• NICE TO HAVE: building applications in Elixir, hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports</p> <p><strong>What We Offer </strong><br>• Competitive compensation package<br>• Fun, relaxed work environment<br>• Education and conference reimbursements.<br>• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others </p> <p><br><span style="color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">#LI-REMOTE</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$145,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$193,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-team