Backend Engineer, Penn Game Studios

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
90K-125K Annually
Gaming
The Role

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:
Penn Game Studios (PGS) is searching for an experienced and enthusiastic backend engineer to work on our cutting edge remote gaming systems.  Work often includes writing rules engines, adding and maintaining platform features, and writing tools to help our internal and external teams.  The right candidate will promote best practices and work closely with project managers to define and prioritize tasks

About the Work

  • Write best in class code for our game and platform servers.
  • Use data storage layers, such as PostgreSQL and Redis, to store and cache important data.
  • Work closely with the platform and dev ops team to implement new functionality.
  • Manage tasks and communicate with producers and teammates.
  • Work with teammates to design high quality solutions for novel problems.
  • Research and apply new technologies when appropriate.
  • Maintain technical documentation of solutions.
  • Work with client engineers to define API contracts and troubleshoot issues
  • Other duties as assigned

About You:

  • 2+ Years of software engineering experience is required
  • Experience with standard back end technologies (such as SQL, Key-Value Caching, HTTP) is required
  • Practical knowledge of scalable server architectures.
  • Practical knowledge of threads, microservices, and distributed locking.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to solve technical problems with practical constraints.
  • Experience with Go is required
  • Experience with Docker and / or Kubernetes is required 
  • Experience Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python, Objective-C, Smalltalk or similar required.
  • Understanding of statistics and probability is a plus.

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
$90,000$125,000 USD

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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The Company
HQ: Philadelphia, PA
441 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Penn Interactive (PI) is an interactive gaming company headquartered in Philadelphia with offices in Las Vegas, NV and Cherry Hill, NJ. As the digital arm to Penn National Gaming (NASDAQ: PENN), the largest regional casino operator in the U.S., we are poised for fast-paced growth in the sports betting and online casino space. We have recently partnered with Barstool Sports to create a unique and exciting sports betting experience through our retail books and the Barstool Sportsbook mobile app.

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