Software Engineer

Join the Churchill Downs Inc. team! Its namesake racetrack, Churchill Downs, in Louisville, KY, opened in 1875, and is most widely known for the Kentucky Derby. As the Kentucky Derby legacy has evolved over 130-plus years, so has CDI, to a multi-state, publicly traded company with racetracks, casinos and the United States’ leading online wagering company among its growing portfolio of successful businesses. 

We are an inclusive and fun place to work. We celebrate unique approaches and points of view. We believe diversity is a mindset that drives excellence. We’re always learning, evolving and growing. We innovate through mutual respect of ideas and collaboration. This allows us to build a common language that inspires our team members and propels us toward the achievement of our vision.  Apply today!

Some of what you will do in this role:

• Develop information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions.
• Solve complex problems by providing solutions through understanding of development tools, data science, and increasing understanding of corporate financial procedures and processes.
• Work closely with developers to improve product functionality.
• Learn codebase and improve coding skills
• Develop increasing knowledge of business financial services and processes for individual facilities or at the corporate level.
• Provide direct customer relationship management to over 250 external customers.
• Build and update customer pari-mutuel finance requirements.
• Progress in the understanding of information from internal and external users of pari-mutuel data, through analytics, data science and institutional knowledge.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• Follow the software development lifecycle and internal and external IT control and finance audit management.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential.

What you need for this role:

• Software architecture, design, and development experience
• Software debugging, development processes experience
• Software development processes
• Analyzing information, processes and data
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or related technical discipline
• Knowledge of programming languages and object-oriented design skills
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Highly developed attention to detail.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The following physical and mental demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: 

a) While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, sometimes for prolonged periods while working at a desk, on the phone, and/or on the computer; type on a computer keyboard; use hands to finger, handle or feel; talk or hear; reach with hands or arms; walk or stand; and perform some repetitive motion activities. 

b) Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, color differentiation, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

 c) This position requires the ability to work effectively as part of a team; and concentrate on a variety of details when faced with interruptions and changing work priorities. 

 d) The mental demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions, as described above, including but not limited to: demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve practical problems or resolve issues; reason, calculate figures and amounts; collect, interpret, and/or analyze complex data and information, and draw valid conclusions; interpret procedures and policies; and meet schedules in a dynamic and sometimes demanding work environment. 

 e) The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate. The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job in a typical office environment. 

f) The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.