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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