Associate Software Engineer

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 Associate Software Engineer will be working in a team that will shape and implement the technology and product deliverables that will drive Light & Wonder products and services forward. This position holder will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and integrating software products in an agile development environment and will collaborate with other engineers to bring innovation to the gaming products.

• Become part of a team to develop new features and functionalities for Light & Wonder products, associated tools, and utilities
• Research new technologies and incorporates them into new and existing Gaming Platform products to take products to the next level
• Develop and produce new features and enhancing existing features for providing better product experience to the gaming customer/players
• Work on refactoring, improvement, and optimization of existing code base
• Design and build reusable code and libraries
• Embrace best coding practices, such as secure coding guidelines, test driven development, continuous integration workflow
• Document all tasks performed and provide solutions to the issues and documenting processes using available tools
• Provide prompt resolution to bugs/issues by using debugging skill
• Any other reasonable activity required by management to work on defined tasks that sometimes require the application of independent judgment

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.

• Demonstrable knowledge of C/C++
• Knowledge of operating system’s basics
• Demonstrable knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts & Principles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset.
• Knowledge of C#
• Familiarity with debugger
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, perforce etc
• Knowledge of scripting language like PowerShell, python, batch scripting etc

University (4 years) degree in computer science, computer engineering or information systems

Years of experience 1 to 2 years

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

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.