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theScore is hiring a

Software Developer, Community

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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

The Community team's mission is to connect sports fans everywhere. Our aim is to provide a healthy space where sports fans can share, engage, and enhance every aspect of their fan experience. Our team will balance both iteration and improvement of our existing features, with ideating, defining and delivering net-new product experiences. We are looking to grow our team with developers who take pride in all aspects of building thoughtful product experiences, value collaboration and are keen to grow their skills and knowledge base. You will be counted on to own the backend portion of the Community experience and be a vital part of the team that defines how theScore supports and engages sports fans everywhere.

About the Work

As a key member of our Community team you will:

  • Work with our preferred technology stack of Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView.  
  • Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place (we’re heavy DataDog users).
  • Build internal web tools in Phoenix and LiveView to help other employees visualize and debug our data and systems.
  • Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment. 
  • Participate occasionally in pair programming to implement features and unblock team members. 
  • Participate in triage duty rotation to answer questions and help debug day-to-day challenges submitted by colleagues from different departments.
  • Deploy services and applications to Amazon EKS.
  • Participate in our on-call rotation so that we can triage critical issues during off-business hours.
  • Other duties as required.

About You

  • A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, and software design.
  • Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.
  • Experience with modern web framework and API development
  • Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.
  • A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
  • Experience with consuming and integrating with third party APIs.
  • Comfortable working in the terminal.
  • Proficiency within an editor of your choice.
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.

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.

 

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Estimated Salary Range

Our AI-powered salary intelligence estimates this position's salary to be between $70,000 - $90,000. The actual salary may vary based on factors such as experience, location, and market trends.

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