Software Developer, Platform Engineering (Coop) - W2026

PENN Entertainment Inc. is North Americas leading provider of integrated entertainment sports content and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming sports betting and entertainment content we deliver the experiences people want how and where they want them.

Were always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether its through ESPN BET Hollywood Casino theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino or theScore media app were excited to push the boundaries of whats possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology a key component of PENNs omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainments digital team youll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive but youll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. Were committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming media and entertainment we want to talk to you.

Work-term: January 5 2026 - April 24 2026

Number of Openings: 2

Hiring Teams:

• TBA across Casino (iCasino) & Sports Ecosystem (cross-app experience between ESPN and ESPN BET platforms)

About the Work

• Work with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir Phoenix Quarkus)
• Support develop scale and optimize gRPC endpoints GraphQL APIs and SQL queries
• Help solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
• Help 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 help build integrations with other internal and external services.
• Help set up monitoring and alerting with Datadog Bugsnag PagerDuty
• Continually strive and be on the lookout for a more scalable system by identifying bottlenecks and areas of high risk
• 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
• 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
• 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 Object Oriented Programming
• 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:

• Fun relaxed work environment
• A voice. Were dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the companys culture
• A company that encourages a culture of inclusion and diversity
• Opportunity to work on large scale consumer-facing applications with millions of users
• Career growth. Mentorship from some of the brightest people in the industry

Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email

Penn Interactive 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.