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 a Senior Software Developer on the ESPN Ecosystem team, you'll enhance the cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms, with the goal of giving users a unified experience in both apps. Our goal is to offer a seamless sports media and betting experience for sports fans, through intuitive cross product integrations. This team's focus is on both acquiring new users directly from the ESPN platform, as well as delivering opportunities for continuous engagement with ESPN BET through unique integrations that can only be found on ESPN and ESPN BET. This new team has many opportunities to lay the building blocks for the future.
We're always looking for ways to not only improve our knowledge but also share knowledge throughout the company. This role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and backend development teams to define and deliver a first-class sports betting experience. We also collaborate externally with the ESPN development team, representing theScore. With that, this is a highly visible and critical team in our partnership with ESPN.
About the Work
Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView)
Develop, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries
Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
Collaborate with the team in a system designed to continually define and improve our internal style guide, maintainability and best practices
Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative, agile/scrum environment
Collaborate with other teams and various stakeholders to build integrations with other internal services.
Setting up monitoring and alerting with DataDog, Bugsnag, PagerDuty, Splunk
Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
Provide mentorship for education to all our developers when onboarding on our services
Other duties as required.
About You
A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
Experience with a production system at scale
Experience with on-call rotations for a production service
Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, add and maintain documentation and work with other team members
Experience with modern web framework and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Django, Laravel, Node)
A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL
Comfortable working in the terminal
Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
Proficiency within an editor of your choice
Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest or equivalent.
A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL and MySQL
Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk).
Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)
NICE TO HAVE: Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development, contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package
Fun, relaxed work environment
Education and conference reimbursements.
Parental leave top up
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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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