Software Engineer (Back-End Developer)

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.

As a global leader in the gaming industry, Light and Wonder’s mission is to be the world’s leading cross channel game company. Our games are designed to reach players wherever they are, whenever they want to play, and in any channel, they choose – casino, retail sites or digital.

The successful Software Engineer will be working on our Server Platform that supports our suite of Table Products across the US, Australia, and Europe.

Net8, RabbitMQ and Automated Testing.

Strong C# knowledge and experience working in a successful software engineer position (2 years) are important in this role.

* This is not a game development role , and it involves working with platform development teams on developing and utilising new API\’s.

Understand and produce software that satisfies the agreed design
Perform reasonable functional and unit tests on completed code ensuring it enters the SQA process with minimal defects
Peer review software written by other engineers providing written and verbal feedback
Adhere to in-house/project coding/design styles, tools and methodologies
Contribute on various projects
Be flexible to deal with the dichotomy of deadlines and changes or issues occurring as natural process of software development

Minimum of 2 years professional experience in a Software Engineering role covering the full software development lifecycle
Strong experience of C# development (C/C++ development is beneficial)
Good knowledge of developing in relational databases and store procedures, ideally in MS SQL Server and PostGreSQL
Good understanding of multi-threaded application development, client/server architecture and REST APIs
Knowledge of Network Fundamentals, such as Unicast, Multicast, IP Subnetting and IP Routing (beneficial)
Knowledge of Linux development

Annual Performance Bonus
~33 days\’ holiday (including bank holidays)
~1 day paid leave to work on charitable projects
~Hybrid working: 2 days remote, 3 days in one of our Manchester UK offices
~ Flexible Working Hours
~5% employer pension contributions
~ Private Healthcare Plan
~ A reward platform offering shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
~ Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)