Software Engineer (Java)

iGaming:
If it’s iGaming, we know a thing or two. At Light & Wonder, It’s all about the games, and our digital team leads the global iGaming market, providing jaw-dropping content and innovative software that powers the world's most successful online gaming providers.

Position Summary

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 Infinity 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.

Join Our Team as a Java Engineer! 🚀 

Are you a Java Engineer with a strong object-oriented development background? We’re looking for a keen 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. 

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. 

Quality Culture: Be part of a value-oriented culture, ensuring the high quality of products and services delivered by the team. 

Simplify Solutions: Turn requirements into simple and sophisticated technological solutions. 

Challenge and Improve: Challenge the status quo and drive improvements in the team and product. 

If you’re ready to make a significant impact we want to hear from you! 🌟 

Qualifications

Education 

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

Qualifications 

• 2+ 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. 

• Have a “can do” attitude 

• Detail oriented and have strong communication skills.      

Additional Information

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 engineering 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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