theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.
As Software Developer, your role will span across the Sportsbook Wagering team which involves enhancing and supporting the markets we offer, the bet placement flow, cash out, bet settlement and many other wagering related features. This role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and backend development teams to define and deliver first-class sports betting experience. As a company, we are design and UX-focused, we believe in turning complex problems into aesthetically beautiful and simple interfaces. Sportsbook Wagering has high visibility and develops features that have a direct impact on the product and the user experience. We iterate quickly so you have plenty of opportunities to learn & grow technically, but more importantly, we have fun while doing it.
Typical Work Day at theScore
- Working with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir/Phoenix, LiveView, Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript).
- Develop, scale, and optimize amazing GraphQL & RESTful APIs.
- Be part of our backend service teams supporting web and mobile clients.
- Build front-end applications using modern JavaScript technologies (React, TypeScript).
- Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
- Other duties as required.
Requirements
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design.
- Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
- Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Node).
- Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
- A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Experience with background job processing (Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Comfortable working in the terminal.
- Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
- Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
- Experience working with profiling tools.
- Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies and tools.
- Consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
- NICE TO HAVE: Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Comprehensive Benefits package.
- Fun, relaxed work environment.
- Education and conference reimbursements.
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Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email accessibilityoffice@thescore.com
theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.
