Senior Android Developer, Bet Experiences

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 ESPN BET, Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino, 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 Role & Team

As a Senior Android Developer on the Sportsbook Experiences team, you’ll be working on various aspects of the company’s premier betting products ESPN Bet and theScore Bet, with the goal of giving users an industry leading gaming experience. Our goal is to offer a performant, engaging, and delightful gaming experiences for all sports fans. This team's focus is on continuously evolving the experience within our gaming products to meet the demands of the dynamic sports gaming industry. You will be working with a high volume of fluid and real time data, exploring ways to efficiently retrieve, transform, and merchandise the data to our users. Additionally, this team is very user experience focused and has agency to progress the app to meet the needs of our very savvy users. Your role on this team will provide many opportunities to innovate and build for the future.

We’re always looking for ways to not only improve our knowledge but also share knowledge throughout the company. This role involves direct collaboration with our design, product, frontend, and backend development teams to define and deliver a first-class sports betting experience. Because this team works on the premier betting products, this is a highly visible and critical team for Penn Entertainment.

About the Work

As a key member of our team you will:

• Work with the product team to design, architect, and ship customer experience features to our amazing applications.
• Implement polished user interfaces with the help of our design team.
• Improve our code through refactoring and applying modern design patterns.
• Work with other engineers through technical collaboration, discussion, and code review.
• Collaborate with the ESPN development team in supporting their initiatives and our own objectives.
• Solve difficult problems related to large data sets and responsive UIs.
• Help our QA team to automate testing and continuous integration.
• Keep up to date with the latest advances in Android development.
• Other duties as required

About You

• 4+ years experience with Kotlin (our apps are 100% Kotlin)
• 5+ years experience in commercial Native Android development
• Experience writing unit tests (jUnit, Mockito, Robolectric)
• Experience developing pixel-perfect user interfaces.
• Experience creating custom UI elements and creating a rich, interactive UX
• Experience working with JetPack Components.
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Koin, Dagger, Hilt)
• Solid understanding of modern software architectures (MVVM)
• Knowledge of mobile network communication (okHttp, retrofit, Apollo GraphQL)
• Experience integrating APIs and back-end services with mobile applications.
• Highly proficient with profiling, troubleshooting and optimizing app performance
• A demonstrated ability in delivering clean, organized, testable, and highly performant code.
• Experience working with Git.
• Experience working with large native code bases with significant complexity.
• Solid knowledge of object-oriented design, software development principles, and design patterns.
• Solid knowledge of concurrency best practices and pitfalls.
• Knowledge of maintaining SDKs for external parties.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or equivalent experience.
• A passion for sports and/or gaming is considered an asset.
• Desired Skills: Git, AndroidX, Android Architecture Components, Kotlin, Coroutines, Dependency Injections(Koin), JUnit, Robolectric, MVVM, retrofit2, OkHttp, GraphQL

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.

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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.