Penn Interactive is hiring a
Staff Software Developer

Summary

Join Penn Interactive as a Trading Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining a key component of our platform, working with a distributed team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Parental leave top up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others