Lead Software Engineer

About the Position

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.

We're hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Gold Fish Casino Slots. It's a nine-figure-revenue PHP codebase that's been shipping continuously for over a decade. Here's the honest version: the codebase has history. Ten years of overlapping initiatives, partial migrations, and code that needs love sitting next to code that does its job well. The job is making this codebase substantially better, not keeping it from getting worse. We're being selective. We care more about finding the right person than filling the seat quickly.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering leadership on roadmap and tradeoffs.
• Set technical standards by example, mentor mid-level engineers through complex work, and write code.
• Influence in our admin tooling stack: a PHP backend with jQuery and Vue.js on the front end.
• Improve the existing codebase and ensure it remains maintainable and scalable.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time as a senior or lead engineer on a production system.
• Deep PHP, including Composer, dependency injection containers (Symfony DI or equivalent), and static analysis.
• Ability to call priorities at two levels: technical execution order, and your own scope.
• Write code that runs in production. Think about load, failure modes, and what keeps us all sleeping at 2AM where we belong.
• Testing judgment. Know when to write a unit test, when to invest in heavier verification, and when to ship behind a flag.
• Have technically led or mentored other engineers. Your code and your reviews set the standard for the team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with large-scale architectural refactors on legacy PHP.
• Production experience with modern observability stacks (metrics, tracing, profiling, structured logs).
• Experience in the live-service games industry or another high-throughput, revenue-critical consumer service.
• Experience with Vue.js or jQuery.
• AWS or similar cloud technology.

We Offer

• Competitive salaries with annual bonuses and 401k matching.
• In-office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays open to work from home.
• A workspace built for comfort: open office layout with ergonomic seating and standing desks, plus a game room with current-gen consoles, game titles, and table games for when you need a break.
• Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages, plus a weekly lunch stipend and monthly snack stipend to help keep you fueled.
• Paid family leave to support you when it matters most.
• Paid volunteer time to give back to causes you care about.
• Annual company retreat (2 nights) to connect with the team outside the office.

About the Company

SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games! 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 #1 social and casual gaming company.

Read More About Our Values Here:

https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay

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! #beYOU

SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games! Learn more at www.lnw.com.

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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Light & Wonder 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 for EEOC Poster.