Principal Software Engineer - Gaming

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

The person in this position oversees the development of advanced and long term products as directed by Light & Wonder leadership. Work in a collaborative team environment with a group of exceptionally talented artists, animators, and game designers. Lead the development of architecting both front-end and back-end software solutions for innovative new slot titles. Responsible for leading the design, development, test and implementation of technical solutions in a development environment. Works with company stakeholders in identifying, implementing and testing applications or services that best prepare the company to meet future business goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Contributes to the company's Intellectual Property portfolio and considers external IP when designing new products

• Oversees development activity to assure that products are built to requirements and designs with sufficient quality and efficiency so they may be profitable

• Ensures that the product conforms to regulatory requirements and satisfies technical standards

• Design, architect, code, integrate, test, and debug game software for slot machines, creating solutions to architectural constraints.

• Ability to rapidly understand requirements, architectures, and development tools within Light & Wonder platform hardware, libraries, and operating systems

• Deliver effective code reviews for all levels of engineers and software development.

• Adhere to and improve coding standards and software engineering best practice to write robust software.

• Contributes to development planning, and provides progress reports to superiors

• Develops strategies and creates an environment for increasing quality of the products and improving efficiency of development efforts

• Creates high-level and/or detailed analysis and design of various software/embedded systems/components to be used in Light & Wonder products

• Trains, monitors, and mentors fellow Engineers on a foundation level of software engineering practices while applying company standards and practices

• Maintains liaison with Engineers and peers

• Total commitment to client satisfaction

• Ability to support multiple projects

• Acting independently to determine method and procedures for new assignments

• Proactively researches and evaluates new technologies

• Determines appropriate time to apply new technologies to new or existing software/hardware solutions

Qualification Requirements:

Training and/or Experience:

• Minimum of seven years of professional experience in software development team.

• Two to five years of experience leading development projects

• Two to five years of experience working the development lifecycles

• Gaming industry experience is preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficient in C#, or related programming languages with a strong understanding of object-oriented design concepts.

• Experience in a 2D and 3D graphics engine is preferred, but not required.

• Must be able to acquire and hold a Nevada Gaming Card

• Self-motivated to learn new skills and technologies through self study

• Must have skill to integrate software to a target platform

• Expert in Analytical and Design skill with sound knowledge of software development life cycle is required

• Familiarity with working in a Windows/Microsoft IDE, i.e. Visual Studio.

Education:

• BSEE, BSCE, BSEET, BSCS, or related field or equivalent experience

• Master's Preferred

Physical Requirements

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

LNW and its affiliates (collectively, "LNW") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain LNW employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure LNW complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, LNW requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with LNW (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to LNW conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.