Staff Software Developer, Trading

at  theScore

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 distributed team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers determined to deliver some of the best apps the market has to offer. We want you to be challenged and to get the full experience of what it’s like to work at theScore!
The Trading team builds and maintains a key component of our platform. We develop tools for our internal traders to manage our risk and exposure as bets are being placed. We integrate with third parties and the rest of the platform to ingest, in real time, market and wager data. Our team operates with very rigorous constraints around latency, throughput and up-time.
About the Work
Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir, Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView)
Develop, scale, and optimize feed integrations, gRPC endpoints, and SQL queries
Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, often presenting proposals for solutions to leadership and other teams for feedback
Navigate through highly sensitive and regulated systems in our codebase; ensuring highest level of code quality and test coverage
Collaborate & educate 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
Support teams developing features in our codebase by helping define the required work, assisting in specs, as well as identifying edge cases and performance improvements through code review
Provide mentorship and be a resource for education to all our developers
About You
A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
Strong grasp and experience with production systems at scale. Experience identifying areas of improvement in a production environment through load testing and monitoring
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
Experience with kubernetes
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 Kafka,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
Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

Please refer the Job description for details