Join Aristocrat, where we build world-class gaming experiences that deliver happiness to millions! As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will work in an agile, well-resourced environment blending startup energy with established company strengths. This role plays a key part in crafting the future of our social casino games, providing an outstanding opportunity to innovate and influence player experiences worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Participate in end-to-end feature development, growing social and gameplay systems.
- Own features from concept through release and monitoring.
- Implement frontend functionality in JavaScript across iOS, Android, and Web.
- Compose and build backend services and APIs in PHP to power new gameplay, social, and LiveOps features.
- Develop scalable RESTful APIs consumed by client applications.
- Contribute to data modeling and persistence for player progression, rewards, and events.
- Improve backend efficiency to handle high concurrency and sizable player populations.
- Ensure features are reliable, testable, and production-ready.
- Assess and optimize frontend and backend performance to provide a fluid player experience.
- Partner with Product to scope technical solutions and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
- Monitor post-launch performance and iterate based on player behavior and metrics.
- Translate creative concepts into engaging, scalable systems.
- Help foster an inclusive engineering atmosphere dedicated to education and constant progress.
- Proactively find opportunities to improve architecture, tooling, and delivery practices.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience with JavaScript in production environments.
- Experience building backend services in a live environment.
- Experience crafting and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Understanding of client-server architecture.
- Experience contributing to features through the full development lifecycle.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a player-first approach.
- Experience developing backend services in PHP (strongly preferred).
- Experience working within an existing PHP codebase.
- Experience building gameplay systems such as events, rewards, progression, or social mechanics.
- Experience in mobile gaming, social casino, or Games-as-a-Service environments.
- Familiarity with experimentation, feature flags, or live feature delivery.
- Mobile development experience (iOS and/or Android).
This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.
We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Production experience with JavaScript
- Experience building backend services in a live environment
- Experience crafting and consuming RESTful APIs
- Understanding of client-server architecture
- Experience contributing to features through the full development lifecycle
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a player-first approach
- Experience developing backend services in PHP
- Experience working within an existing PHP codebase
- Experience building gameplay systems such as events, rewards, progression, or social mechanics
- Experience in mobile gaming, social casino, or Games-as-a-Service environments
- Familiarity with experimentation, feature flags, or live feature delivery
- Mobile development experience in iOS and/or Android
Aristocrat Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aristocrat and has not been reviewed or approved by Aristocrat.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as robust, with medical, dental, and vision options that are frequently highlighted alongside wellness resources. Feedback suggests these benefits are a core strength of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer matching is commonly noted, with match levels reported around 4–5% depending on plan or period. This is seen as a solid foundation for long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave plus adoption and surrogacy assistance are referenced as part of the offering. These benefits contribute to a family-friendly reputation.
Aristocrat Insights
What We Do
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 6500 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day. Come and join us – let’s play!
Why Work With Us
Individually we’re great, but together we’re brilliant. Our employees are the beating heart of our business and we attract the best people in the industry thanks to our unique and inspiring culture. Come and join the team and help bring joy to life through the power of play.
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