Software Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

Application close date: 22nd May 2025

Interview Date & Time: Thursday 29th May, 2025 - 2 Hardman Boulevard, Manchester M3 3AQ - 11am - 15:30pm

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.

Position Summary

You will be joining a team of 9 Creators who are working to refactor an existing platform to utilise new technology in the following tech stack: .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.

Main Role Responsibilities:

• 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
• Highlight areas where the design and procedures can be improved
• Provide regular feedback on progress and issues, via daily stand-ups
• Plan and take responsibility for the delivery of your work
• Achieve an optimum balance between technical purity, product presentation and on-time delivery
• Adhere to in-house/project coding/design styles, tools and methodologies
• Contribute on various projects
• Contribute to support documentation to assist users
• Assist in debugging
• Be flexible to deal with the dichotomy of deadlines and changes or issues occurring as natural process of software development

Essential Skills:

• Relevant and demonstrable experience (Degree in relevant subject would be beneficial but not required)
• 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
• Experience of developing and using event-based systems

Desirable Skills:

• Good understanding of source code control tools such as Git, Subversion and Perforce
• Knowledge of Network Fundamentals, such as Unicast, Multicast, IP Subnetting and IP Routing (beneficial)
• Knowledge of Linux development

What we can offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus
• 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays)
• 1 day paid leave to work on charitable projects
• 1 day paid for Celebration of your choice
• Half Day for Health (encouraging you to take time away for you & your wellbeing)
• 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)