Senior Software Engineer (Java)
Light & Wonder is looking for an experienced, smart, and creative individual to work in a primarily technical role. As a Senior Software Engineer, the successful candidate will work within a high-performing agile team alongside software engineers, test engineers, software architects, DevOps engineers, and business teams to shape and implement technology and product deliverables that drive strategic initiatives.
The role requires participation in all stages of the software product development life cycle. This includes analysing systems, micro-services, and web services, making the most out of Amazon Web Services, participating in the requirement capturing process, writing clean Java code, troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality and performance. The candidate will be expected to take on a senior role, leading technical discussions and delivering technical advice in a confident manner.
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle.
- Write well designed and efficient code.
- Work with others as part of a self-organising team to design, build, and run products and services hosted on-premises and in the cloud.
- Review and refactor existing code to improve platform reliability, robustness, performance, and operability.
- Work within a high-performance team running kanban and incrementally deliver value to the business following set priorities.
- Become part of a value-oriented culture ensuring the quality of products and services delivered by the team.
- Lead engineers on large product initiatives, providing technical coaching to less experienced engineers.
- Excellent and demonstrable knowledge of the Java programming language, with at least 5 years of commercial experience. (required)
- Experience in developing RESTful applications with Spring boot or related frameworks. (required)
- Familiarity with AWS, Cloud Native applications and Microservice architectures. (required)
- Experience working with relational (SQL, DDL, ACID) and non-relational databases. (required)
- Comfortable with Unix/Linux environments. (required)
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills. (required)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. (required)
- Experience with caching strategies using Redis / Hazelcast. (nice-to-have)
- Familiar with messaging by using Kafka / RabbitMQ or others. (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with Continuous Deployment and Integration tools (Jenkins, Docker, etc). (nice-to-have)
- Experience leading a small team of developers. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). (nice-to-have)
- Frontend experience (HTML, JavaScript, React). (nice-to-have)
- Experience acting as the primary technical decision-maker for a team, platform, product, or major project. (nice-to-have)
- Competitive benefits.
- Open and supportive environment.
- Modern and exciting workplace.
- Opportunity to interact with global teams.
- Possibility to switch teams and projects.
- Exciting projects with opportunities for creating positive change to the game engineering ecosystem.
- Stunning work location.
- Flexible hybrid working.
- Guidance and development skills to enhance career progression.
Light & Wonder, Inc. is a leading cross-platform gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Scientific Games, it rebranded in 2022 after divesting its lottery and sports-betting businesses to focus on gaming. The company operates across three segments - Gaming (slot machines, table games and casino systems under brands such as Bally, WMS and Shuffle Master), SciPlay (social casino games) and iGaming (online casino content). Listed in both the US and Australia, it supplies content and systems to casinos and online operators worldwide.