Software Developer, Web Platform (Coop)

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.

Work-term: September 3, 2024 - December 20, 2024

Number of Openings: 1

About the Role & Team

The Web Platform team’s mission is to provide front end developers an environment that will enable them to create world class web applications. We’ll be solving organization wide engineering problems across three domains: performance, reliability and developer experience. You’ll be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. We’re also a team that enjoys learning and sharing knowledge. We like to keep our documentation up to date and take time out of our day to learn new technologies. We’d hope that working with our team you’ll help drive our infrastructure to greater heights.

About the Work

As a key member of our Web team you will:

Working with our preferred technology stack: Typescript, React, tailwindcss, Testing Library, Apollo, zustand.

Work with Product Management, Design and Backend services to iterate on new features.

Help identify areas of improvements within our code base and help to make it better.

Have the opportunity to learn, collaborate and teach with other members of the team.

Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.

Use app monitoring tools to help create a better user experience.

Write tests for each feature and bug you complete. Testing is important on our team.

Help create performant and accessible web applications.

Other duties as required.

Requirements:

A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design.

Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship.

Experience with a modern web framework and consuming APIs.

Experience with Git and GitHub or similar.

A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript.

A solid understanding of working with the browser (Document, Events, Interfaces).

Love to learn new technologies and share them with others.

Proficiency within an editor of your choice.

Experience with writing automated tests (Jest, Jasmine, Cypress, Playwright).

Always trying to understand why things happen at a deeper level.

Consuming and integrating with third party APIs.

NICE TO HAVE: React, consuming GraphQL APIs, JavaScript SSR, knowledge of browser security (HTTPS, CORS, CSP, etc), contribution to open source software, experience working at startups, passion for sports and/or esports.

What We Offer:

Fun, relaxed work environment

A voice. We're dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the company's 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

theScore 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.