Software Engineer, Sportsbook Platform at Penn Interactive

Department: 1150 - Interactive Engineering

Compensation

$115,000 – $145,000/yr

Setup: Remote
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: Jul 2, 2026

Description

PENN Entertainment is hiring a Sportsbook Platform Software Engineer to develop, scale, and optimize GraphQL APIs, gRPC endpoints, and SQL queries for theScore Bet Sportsbook. The role owns complex technical problems, end-to-end feature delivery, production performance and reliability improvements, release and deployment management, monitoring, and engineering mentorship. It requires at least three years of software engineering experience, strong distributed-systems and production-systems knowledge, experience with Elixir, Phoenix, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and related infrastructure, and offers a $115,000–$145,000 USD salary range with remote work.

Required Skills

Elixir
Phoenix
GraphQL
gRPC
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Kubernetes
DataDog
Git

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: At least 3 years of software engineering experience
Experience investigating and remediating production performance regressions
Experience with on-call rotations and end-to-end release cycles
Experience with modern web frameworks and API development
Experience designing and evolving GraphQL schemas for multi-client platforms
Experience building and integrating multi-client or white-label platforms
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized services
Experience with testing frameworks
Experience with background job processing
Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications: Building GraphQL APIs with Absinthe
Hexagonal architecture
Domain Driven Development
Open source software contribution
Startup experience
Passion for sports and/or esports
Translation Company Name: Penn Interactive