Staff Software Developer

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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,

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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

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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

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