Engineering Manager, Sports Core
$150k - $200k USD
PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s 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.
We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.
When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re 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.
About the Team:
As part of the Sports Core team, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our team builds and operates the platform foundations that power live sports and wagering experiences at scale. We own mission-critical core services and APIs that distribute real-time sports data and event state, enabling downstream teams to ship first-class fan experiences across our Media and Sports Betting products. Importantly, we take great pride in delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions.
About the Work:
- Manage the day-to-day activities of one or more software development teams, providing goal setting, mentorship, coaching, leadership, guidance and performance management and feedback.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Manager on the team to build the roadmap, flesh out requirements, and ensure the team executes.
- Ensure development deliverables are documented and key decisions are recorded in accordance with the design and development process.
- Help with hiring initiatives across the engineering department.
- Assist in identifying process problems and contribute to the continual enhancement of the design, development processes and system architecture.
- Ensure development follows the development process throughout the development lifecycle.
- Establish success metrics (KPIs and SLAs) and monitor team and system performance.
- Collaborate with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.
- Stay current with trends, techniques, technology and other factors impacting the job incorporating as deemed necessary.
- Other duties as required.
About You:
- Known as being a kind person, who prioritizes the team’s outcomes over ego and leads with empathy, trust, and accountability
- Motivate the people around you, pushing them to achieve more than expected through execution excellence, clear goals, and continuous coaching
- Minimum 3–5 years in a leadership or management role combined with at least 8 years of experience in software development of consumer-facing, high-scale systems
- Experience leading teams of 10+ engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
- Strong program and delivery management skills in managing scope tradeoffs and delivering predictably across overlapping initiatives and tight deadlines
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and strong operational judgment to manage risk, unblock teams, and make high-quality decisions under pressure
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to various stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organization
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, including writing crisp technical narratives for decision records, incident reviews, executive updates
- Demonstrated collaborative work style with the ability to effectively collaborate and work with all levels of the organization
- Platform mindset building and operating reliable, scalable, secure services for high-traffic, latency-sensitive experiences
- High level of critical and logical thinking, analysis, and reasoning to identify underlying causes
- Passionate about clean architecture, software craftsmanship, automated testing, CI/CD, and progressive delivery practices
- Practical experience using AI developer tooling to improve throughput and quality with sensible guardrails
- Able to evaluate and integrate AI capabilities into products to drive personalization, amplify feature enhancements, and support automation
- Comfortable operating in regulated environments and embedding secure SDLC practices
- Data-driven mindset leveraging product and engineering metrics to experiment and guide prioritization
- A drive for finding simple solutions to complex problems, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Passion for sports and fan culture, with an understanding of what fuels audience engagement and live event moments
- NICE TO HAVE: Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, contribution to open source software
What We Offer:
- Ship features that impact millions of users.
- Work on large distributed systems spanning public cloud and on-prem locations.
- Learn how to manage workloads, at scale, running on Kubernetes
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive Benefits package.
- Education and conference reimbursement.
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Salary Range
$150,000—$200,000 USD
Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Penn Interactive provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Penn Interactive provides best-in-class benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.