Job Description
Position Summary - Work with multiple game teams to define and create shared backend infrastructure and libraries to facilitate the needs of all teams
- Help further extend and own the games' common tools framework
- Stay apprised of and evaluate new technologies and programming practices
- Identify and refactor problematic areas of codebase
- Use Git on a daily basis to manage source code
- Perform code review for fellow engineers
- Research and utilize third party APIs (Facebook, Teak, Adjust, etc)
- Occasional light front end web work with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Mentor junior engineers and assist them with feature development and debugging
- Participate in on-site interviews with engineering candidates
- Help migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud
REQUIREMENTS Education: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
Required Experience: - 7+ years of software development experience
- Experience with cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience writing and debugging in a statically typed language like C#, C++ or Java
- Experience writing and debugging in a dynamically typed language like Javascript, Ruby or Python
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization technologies
- Experience working with MySQL or another RDBMS
- Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with modern version control systems like Git and Mercurial
- Strong communication skills
Preferred Experience: - Social / Mobile game development
- Experience migrating legacy on-premises applications to the cloud. (Amazon Web Services (AWS) etc)
- Experience working with AWS Database technologies such as RDS, DynamoDB, etc
- Experience working with AWS Service Technologies such as ECS, Fargate, Elastic Load Balancers, etc
- Microservice development (Node.js, Lambda, etc)
- Experience with containers/container management. (Docker, Vagrant, etc)
- Experience with creating and maintaining packages.
- Experience with build/CI systems like Jenkins
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: - Experience working from the command line and using common utilities (grep, tail, etc)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Couchbase, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, etc)
- Front end best practices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Professional experience working in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment
Qualifications Vision: Close Vision, Depth Perception, Distance Vision, Ability to Adjust Focus, Peripheral Vision, Ability to Distinguish All Colors
Physical Requirements: Hybrid office environment
Work Conditions: We have offices in multiple time zones; some positions may require occasional travel and weekend/evening hours.
We are SciPlay! We make games! At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! We are the brainiacs behind-the-scenes; innovating, dreaming, and navigating the social gaming world. Together, if we stay passionate and ambitious with our goals, no one can stop us from becoming the #1 social and casual gaming company.
A few of our highlighted perks and benefits: • Competitive salaries
•Annual bonuses, matching 401k
•Hybrid work model (3 days in office)
•Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.
•Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week
•Paid Family Leave
•Paid Volunteer Time
•Annual 2-night company retreat
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.
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