Backend Engineer (Penn Game Studios) @Penn Interactive
Software Development
Salary -
Remote Location
🇺🇸 USA Only
Job Type Full-time
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[Hiring] Backend Engineer (Penn Game Studios) @Penn Interactive

Feb 22, 2024 - Penn Interactive is hiring a remote Backend Engineer (Penn Game Studios). 📍Location: USA.

Penn Interactive (PI) is an interactive gaming company headquartered in Philadelphia. PI is the digital arm of PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), the largest regional casino operator in the U.S.). Our mission is to challenge the norms of the gaming industry by building an immersive interactive gaming experience that is responsible, innovative, and fun. We are committed to helping our team members grow and succeed.  We believe that hiring talented individuals that love what they do will help us win!

About the Team & Role

Penn Game Studios (PGS) is searching for an experienced and enthusiastic Software 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 Work

The following and other duties may be assigned as necessary:

  • Write best in class code for our platform servers.
  • Use data storage layers, such as PostgreSQL and Redis, to store and cache important data.
  • 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.

About You

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be at least 21 years of age.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or one year of software engineering experience.
  • Experience with standard backend technologies such as SQL, Key-Value Caching, HTTP, etc.
  • Practical knowledge of scalable server architectures.
  • Practical knowledge of threads, microservices, and distributed locking.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience with Git and Github or similar.
  • Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to solve technical problems with practical constraints.
  • Comfortable working in the terminal.
  • Comfortable working in a linux environment.
  • Experience using Visual Studio Code or similar.
  • Experience working with profiling tools.
  • Experience in Go, Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python, or similar is required.

Location

The primary office location for this position will be located in Greenfield, MA or remotely.

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/penn-interactive-pi/

Recently being recognized as a top workplace in the United States, we believe people work their best when they can be themselves. We are looking for hungry, innovative thinkers to help us challenge the status quo of the gaming industry.  Diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to all of our processes, programs, and structures. Your story, who you are, and your experience matter here.

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Backend Engineer (Penn Game Studios) @Penn Interactive
Software Development
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Job Type Full-time
Posted 2mths ago
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