Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform

Canada, RemoteRemotePosted 7 days ago

Role Overview

Penninteractive is hiring a entry-level Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform. This is a full-time remote role, with the team based in Canada, Remote. Part of Penninteractive's Backend hiring, posted last week. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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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 Team
The Sportsbook Platform team owns the backend that powers theScore Bet Sportsbook. We are the team behind the marketplace: the event, market, and page-composition systems that decide how bets are surfaced, organized, and updated for the user. What we own is everything around markets: how markets are modelled, how pages are composed, and how quickly changes propagate to patrons.

Our stack is primarily Elixir and Phoenix, backed by PostgreSQL, Kafka, and a service mesh of gRPC and GraphQL endpoints running on Kubernetes. We operate at the scale and latency that live sports demand, which means we care deeply about production hygiene: load testing, tracing, structured monitoring, and clear on-call expectations. You will also spend meaningful time reviewing other teams' work in our codebase, defining the shape of upcoming work, and mentoring the engineers around you. We care about the craft as much as the ship. If you like distributed systems, functional programming, live production traffic, and a team that treats software quality as a first-class product concern, you will feel at home here. You will also spend meaningful time reviewing other teams' work in our codebase, defining the shape of upcoming work, and mentoring the engineers around you. We care about the craft as much as the ship. If you like distributed systems, functional programming, live production traffic, and a team that treats software quality as a first-class product concern, you will feel at home here.

About the Work
As a key member of the Sportsbook Platform team, you will:

Develop, scale, and optimize the GraphQL APIs, gRPC endpoints, and SQL queries that power the marketplace
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 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
Take on the Sportsbook Platform Support rotation, which owns release management and deployment management during its window
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.

About You

You possess a minimum of 3 years of experience in Software engineering
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
Experience with modern web frameworks and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Fast API, Laravel, Node)
Experience designing and evolving GraphQL schemas for product surfaces used by multiple clients (iOS, Android, Web)
Experience building and integrating multi-client / white-label platforms, including geo-based routing and per-client configuration
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 HAVE: building GraphQL APIs with Absinthe, hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package
Fun, relaxed work environment
Education and conference reimbursements.
Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

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Salary Range

$115,000—$145,000 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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Frequently Asked Questions

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Is the Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform role at Penninteractive remote?

Yes. This is a remote role. The team is based in Canada, Remote, but the position itself does not require relocating to that office.

What does a Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform at Penninteractive earn?

Penninteractive has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.

When was the Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform role at Penninteractive posted?

This role was posted on July 2, 2026 (7 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

Is the Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform role at Penninteractive entry-level?

Yes. This is an entry-level position. Strong candidates typically have 0-2 years of relevant work experience, internships, or significant project work. Read the full description for any specific qualification requirements Penninteractive has listed.

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