Senior Software Engineer

Light & Wonder is the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment. The company brings together 5,000 employees from six continents to connect content between land-based and digital channels with unmatched technology and distribution. Guided by a culture that values daring teamwork and creativity, Light & Wonder builds new worlds of play, developing game experiences loved by players around the globe. The company’s OpenGaming(tm) platform powers the largest digital-gaming network in the industry. Light & Wonder is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more, visit lnw.com.

We are seeking an experienced Java Engineer with a proven object-oriented development background to become a lead contributor in a team of talented multidisciplinary engineers plus QA in evolving and extending the game engine platform powering our latest generation of games. Reporting to a Development Lead, the Senior Software Engineer will be working alongside other team members, Product Owner, Project Manager, QA, Solution Architects and Capability Heads to shape and implement the next generation of our gaming platform. 

As an Engineering team will be more aggressively adopting newer technologies, architectural principles and approaches to development, deployment and monitoring. The Senior Software Engineer will be critical to ensure the highest coding standards and quality of deliverables to the QA as well as displaying the ability to lead technical discussions and deliver technical advice in a confident manner. A Senior Software Engineer will be expected to both lead and mentor less experienced developers, actively contributing to their day-to-day activities and training needs.

Join Our Team as a Senior Java Engineer! 🚀 

Are you an experienced Java Engineer with a strong object-oriented development background? We’re looking for a lead contributor to join our talented team of multidisciplinary engineers and QA experts. You’ll play a pivotal role in evolving and extending the game engine platform that powers our latest generation of games. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Collaborate: Work alongside team members, Product Management, and Solution Architects to shape and implement the next generation of our gaming platform. 

• Innovate: Aggressively adopt cutting-edge technologies, architectural principles, and modern approaches to development, deployment, and monitoring. 

• Lead: Ensure the highest coding standards and quality of deliverables, lead technical discussions, and provide confident technical advice. 

• Mentor: Guide and mentor less experienced developers, contributing to their day-to-day activities and training needs. 

Your Main Areas of Focus: 

• Full Lifecycle Participation: Engage in all stages of the software development life cycle. 

• Team Collaboration: Work within a self-organizing team to design, develop, and deploy new features and services. 

• Code Excellence: Write well-designed, efficient, reusable, testable, high-quality, and reliable code. 

• Continuous Improvement: Review and refactor existing code to enhance our platform’s reliability, robustness, performance, and operability. 

• Best Practices: Ensure engineering best practices are always applied. 

• Innovation: Research and introduce new technologies, architectural principles, and approaches to solve everyday challenges. 

• Documentation: Maintain living documentation that reflects our evolving technical solutions. 

Education 

B.Sc. degree in Computer Science or related scientific/engineering field 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of demonstrable software engineering with a primary focus on Java and Object-Oriented Design 

• Experience with Java Spring Framework 

• Detail-oriented, focusing on writing maintainable code of high quality (Clean Code, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles) 

• Experience in Relational (SQL) and non-Relational databases 

• Disciplined approach to testing 

• Good knowledge of large-scale website or application architectures and technology stacks 

• Experienced in app containerization using Docker 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken 

• Excellent teamwork skills within a team environment  

• Experience interacting with customers, external partners and business stakeholders 

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly  

• Self-motivated with a drive for excellence  

• A "can do" attitude and out-of-the-box thinking  

• Ability to work with others and assume shared ownership for our work  

• Able to deal with changing priorities based on business needs  

• Experience with various development methodologies and practices; TDD, Kanban/Lean, SAFe. 

It would also be great to see these skills/experiences: 

• Experience with Java 21 

• Performance tuning skills, including refactoring, code profiling and monitoring 

• Automated testing and CI 

• Familiarity with Continuous Deployment and Integration tools (Jenkins, Docker, etc)  

• Familiarity with the GitHub ecosystem (including GitHub Actions) 

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Native applications and Microservice architectures 

• Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or others 

• Frontend experience (HTML, JavaScript, React, Angular) is a plus 

• Scripting skills: Bash, Python, Groovy 

• Comfortable with Unix/Linux environments Release management and configuration management experience. 

• Experience leading a small team of developers

• Experience with Agile methodologies (Kanban)  

• Experience acting as the primary technical decision-maker for a team, platform, product, or major project 

As a person you will (be): 

• Challenge the status quo 

• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient, focused and determined 

• Well organized and determined to meet commitments. 

Why would you enjoy working with us at Light & Wonder?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.

• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow.

• Exciting projects with opportunities for creating positive change to our game ecosystem.

And if that is not enough; you will get to enjoy a stunning work location and flexible working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.

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