Senior Software Developer, Platform Core at theScore

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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.

About the Role & Team

As part of the theScore team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers working together to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We are looking for engineers for our Platform Core team. This team is focused on building tools and services that allow our backend services to handle a high volume of traffic. Our team is continuously exploring new technologies and providing recommendations to other teams.

About the work

As a Senior Software Developer on the Platform Core team, you will:

Design and build foundational components that improve the reliability and scalability of our backend services
Build internal tools and libraries to help accelerate other backend teams
Collaborate regularly with other teams to ensure what we’re building serves their needs
Contribute to improving and evolving software development across the organization
Provide mentorship to Junior and Intermediate developers.

About You

A solid background in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems and software design.
You are prepared to play a technical leadership role on the team. This position requires an ownership mentality, not just great coding skills.
A drive for finding simple solutions to complex problems.
Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
Diligent about delivering well-tested features, including unit and integration tests.
You love to keep up to date with technology and sharing what you learn with teammates.
Excellent communication skills, including solid technical writing abilities.
An interest in designing, building, and optimizing distributed systems.
NICE TO HAVE: Experience with functional programming, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Quarkus.

What We Offer

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

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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.

Estimated Salary range:

Our salary intelligence, powered by our AI algorithms, has calculated an estimated range for this position between $80,000 - $110,000 . Please note that the actual salary for this position may vary, as it is dependent on various factors including but not limited to experience, location, and market dynamics.

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