Position Summary SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.
SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live, and Solitaire Daily Break with offices all over the world.
Job Summary: SciTech is the platform team inside of SciPlay that provides innovative tech solutions to our partner teams, empowering them to create the best game experiences possible for our players. As a Senior Software Engineer in SciTech, you'll work on features and services in a variety of domains, including our Direct-to-Consumer Web Store platform. The best candidates for this role are comfortable thinking about the big picture of projects they work on, developing elegant solutions and anticipating the needs of our partners. You won't be doing this alone; you'll collaborate with our senior technical staff in setting technical direction for projects as well as mentoring junior engineers on the team.
Essential Job Functions: - Write performant and clean code in projects of varying sizes and complexity.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders both inside and outside the team to understand the business problems we're trying to solve and then come up with the right solutions using the right tech.
- Our team is responsible for a variety of services in different phases of the SDLC - you should expect to be involved in maintaining, optimizing and refactoring them to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
- A big part of this role includes the ability to design, implement, document, and maintain mobile-first websites and web-clients written in TypeScript, JSX and React.
- Back-end work matters too, so you should also be comfortable developing services written in C and ASP.NET Core.
- The usual stuff: code reviews, mentoring junior devs, keeping up with the latest tech trends, and helping interview candidates for the team.
Qualifications Required Experience: - BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- 7+ years of full-stack software development experience
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript, as well as experience with web development frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, Bootstrap and Foundation
- Front end best practices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience writing and debugging in both statically and dynamically typed languages like C , JavaScript and Python
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization technologies
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with modern version control systems like Git and Mercurial
- Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication skills
Preferred Experience: - Full-stack development on a live e-commerce site.
- Experience as a tech lead on a small engineering team
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform
- Experience working with AWS Database technologies such as RDS and DynamoDB, and Service Technologies such as ECS, Fargate, and Elastic Load Balancer
- Microservice development (Node.js, Lambda, etc)
- Experience with containers/container management. (Docker, Vagrant, etc)
- Experience working in an agile environment using Scrum/Kanban
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 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
Read More About Our Values Here:Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have.
SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games. Learn more at .
SciPlay Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, SciPlay) are committed to creating a workforce of credibility and dependability. As a prerequisite to employment with SciPlay (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SciPlay 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. SciPlay 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 EEOC Poster.
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