Back-End Software Engineer

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 businesses, we deliver unforgettable experiences by combining the exceptional talents of our 6,000+ 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.

Software Engineer-Backend Java

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

Required Experience: 3-5 years

Job Description:

LnW iGaming are searching for experienced, smart and creative individuals to work in a primarily technical support role responsible for maintaining game engines on our next generation casino platform. Individuals are most likely to be an engineer with at least 3 years of professional experience in the domain of web system design and development. They will be expected to take on a senior role within the team, displaying the ability to lead technical discussions and deliver technical advice in a confident manner.

The ideal candidate will be expected to contribute a key supporting role in areas such as requirements capture, code analysis and test whilst fulfilling their core responsibilities in the maintaining and addressing change requests of software systems. They are expected to be able to apply considerable professional experience of software development concepts and processes to ensure best practice within the team. The candidate should have a track record of making crucial contributions to the upkeep of software for a variety of purposes including changing or new market requirements, investigating and fixing production issues etc.

Key Tasks

• Maintain and add Improvements to existing game engines on our next generation casino platform

• Contribute to technical upkeep of game engines/projects

• Maintain strong relationships with both external and internal customers

• Design & develop functionality based on existing coding standards or patterns

• Write unit and integration tests effectively. 

• Contribute to code reviews on code written by team

• Design / alter complex database schema and queries

• Maintain documentation for existing products.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the software

• Provide input to the project / product cost estimation process e.g: estimations of engineering effort

Reports to: Development Manager

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 3-4 years of hands on with the following technologies

• Core Java

• C++

• OOPs concepts

• Collections, Lambda Expressions, Generics

• JUint, XML and JSON

• Good Debugging and Analytical skills

• Good understanding of client-server communication protocol.

• Basic knowledge of Linux and hands-on experience

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Basic experience of Spring Framework

• Basic knowledge of Gatling, Scala

• PostgreSQL

• Maven, Git, Jenkins, JIRA

• Agile methodology

• Jira

• IntelliJ IDE

• Game development experience is a huge plus

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in related field.