Software Engineer

iGaming:

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Position Summary

LnW are searching for experienced, smart and creative individuals to work in a primarily technical role involving the development of game engines. Individuals are most likely to be an engineer with 2-5 years of professional experience in the domain of web system design and development.

The ideal candidate will be expected to contribute in areas such as requirements capture, analysis and test whilst fulfilling their core responsibilities of game software development. They are expected to be able to apply their professional experience of software development concepts and processes. The candidate should have a track record of making crucial contributions to the development of software for a variety of purposes including live production systems.

Working as part of a game squad, the GDM engineer will work closely with the mathematician, client engineer, tester and producer to create high quality software that adhere to the established SG Digital standards.

Good communications skills are a must as forging close relationships with team members and internal teams will be critical in ensuring successful execution and delivery of games.

Key Tasks
• Build and maintain game engines on our next generation casino platform
• Contribute to technical end-to-end delivery of game engines/projects
• Maintain strong relationships with both external and internal customers
• Design & develop functionality based on existing coding standards or patterns
• Write unit and integration tests for own code
• Contribute to code reviews on code written by team
• Design / alter complex database schema and queries
• Maintain documentation for products you work on
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the software
• Provide input to the project / product cost estimation process e.g: estimations of engineering effort

Reporting Lines:

Reports to: Development Manager

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED:
• 2-5 years of hands on with the following technologies
• Core Java
• OOPs concepts
• Collections, Lambda Expressions, Generics
• JUint, XML and JSON
• Good Debugging and Analytical skills
• Basic knowledge of Linux and hands-on experience

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
• Experience of Spring Framework
• Gatling, Scala
• PostgreSQL
• Maven, Git, Jenkins, JIRA
• Agile methodology
• IntelliJ IDE

Game development experience is a huge plus

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors degree in related field.

Years of Related Experience

Years of experience 2 to 5 years

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

Scientific Games Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG 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 SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG 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