Associate Manager, Software Engineering - Front-End

iGaming:
If it’s iGaming, we know a thing or two. At Light & Wonder, It’s all about the games, and our digital team leads the global iGaming market, providing jaw-dropping content and innovative software that powers the world's most successful online gaming providers.

Position Summary

About Company

Light & Wonder is a global leader in game experiences. We create content, hardware and systems that connect iconic titles across any place or channel. By turning games into expansive entertainment, we keep thrilling players with characters and stories they can’t get enough of.

Light & Wonder, Inc. is the leading cross-platform global games company. Through our three unique, yet highly complementary business segments, we deliver unforgettable experiences by combining the exceptional talents of our 6,500+ member team, with a deep understanding of our customers and players. We create immersive content that forges lasting connections with players, wherever they choose to engage. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games. The Company is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more visit www.lnw.com. 

We are committed to offering very competitive benefits that are aligned with our values and inspire employees to drive innovation and contribute to the organization’s performance. Employees are the most valued resource, and we always look to improve their well-being with a wide range of benefits befitting every individual. Not limited to monetary benefits, we have robust learning and development opportunities that help them to grow professionally.

Our Values

• Dare to be bold: We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways.

• Celebrate perspectives - We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways

• Never settle: We relentlessly push forward to create the extraordinary in every detail.

• Uphold integrity: We promote accountability and respect to raise the bar for ourselves and the industry.

• Win as a team: We bring out the best in each other to share collective success.

• Job Location:    Commerzone IT Tech Park, Yerwada - Pune.

• Required Experience: 8-12 Year

LnW are looking for an experienced Development Lead from a JavaScript oriented development background to join our team of skilled engineers. In this role you will be given responsibility for creating scalable product solutions that run on our leading-edge online casino platform. This will ensure you take our products and your career to the next level.

The Development Lead position at LnW consists of a balance of four main areas of responsibility:

• Technical leadership: Understand the platform and technologies used and guide future direction

• Team leadership: Coaching, support and development of the team

• Customer liaison: A trusted point of contact between LnW professional service teams, our customers and partners.

• Incidents: Management of, and escalation path for live production incidents.

Key Tasks

• Build UI for games on our next generation casino platform

• Manage a team of approximately 6-8 developers

• Manage and contribute to technical end-to-end delivery of games

• Become a primary point of contact for and maintain strong relationships with both external and internal customers

• Lead design and code reviews, set coding standards and ensure they are met by deliverables

• Ensure engineering best practice principles are applied at all times

• Design solutions that are compatible with the strategic direction of the company

• Support the recruitment process of technical resources

Responsible for

Ownership for management of a squad and software quality and delivery assigned to it.  Mentoring team members and building a healthy productive culture.

Liaison with

The role will interact directly with the Studio Managers, QA Managers, Project Managers, Game Producers and other team members

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 3+ years people management skills including experience managing development teams

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken

• Experience interacting with customers, external partners and business stakeholders

• Demonstrable talent coding in JavaScript / TypeScript and their application with design patterns

• Experience with JavaScript libraries or similar framework

• Disciplined approach to testing

• Good knowledge of large-scale website or application architectures and technology stacks

• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns

• Experience with various development methodologies; Agile, TDD or Kanban

• Experience in deploying and configuring Web Applications.

• Experience reviewing others work for performance, security, efficiency and portability

• Ability to multi-task and rapidly switch contexts

• Ideally 5+ years of experience building web applications

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Performance tuning skills, including refactoring, code profiling and monitoring

• Automated testing and CI

• Some scripting skills: Bash, Python, etc...

• Release management and configuration management experience

Personal Profile:

• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient, focused and determined

• Well organized and consistently meets commitments.

• Requires a “can do” commitment to achieve the success.

• Detail oriented and Strong communication skills.              

• Comfortable leading cross functional teams.

Education

Bachelors degree in related field.

Qualifications