Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Position Summary

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.
SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live, and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

You’ll be part of SciTech, the platform development team of SciPlay. SciTech develops innovative solutions to enable our partner teams to create the best player experiences possible. Developing services, breaking apart monoliths, and creating tools to make our lives easier are all part of the day-to-day of the SciTech team.

Essential Job Functions:

• Work with multiple game teams to define and create shared server infrastructure and libraries to facilitate the needs of all teams
• Help further extend and own the games’ common PHP tools framework
• Stay apprised of and evaluate new technologies and programming practices
• Identify and refactor problematic areas of codebase
• Use Git on a daily basis to manage source code
• Perform code review for fellow engineers
• Research and utilize third party APIs (Facebook, Teak, Adjust, etc)
• Occasional light front end web work with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Mentor junior engineers and assist them with feature development and debugging
• Participate in on-site interviews with engineering candidates
• Help migrate existing on-premises applications to the cloud

Qualifications

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience writing backend server code using PHP
• Experience with PHP development frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony
• Familiarity with frontend development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience working with MySQL or another RDBMS
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with modern version control systems like Git and Mercurial
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Experience:

• Social / Mobile game development
• Experience migrating legacy on-premises applications to the cloud. (Amazon Web Services (AWS) etc)
• Experience working with AWS Database technologies such as RDS, DynamoDB, etc
• Experience working with AWS Service Technologies such as ECS, Fargate, Elastic Load Balancers, etc
• Microservice development (Node.js, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with containers/container management. (Docker, Vagrant, etc)
• Experience with creating and maintaining packages.
• Experience with build/CI systems like Jenkins

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience working from the command line and using common utilities (grep, tail, etc)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Couchbase, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, etc)
• Front end best practices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Professional experience working in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment

We are SciPlay! We make games!

At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! 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.

A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:

• Competitive salaries

• Annual bonuses, matching 401k

• Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

• Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.

• Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week

• Paid Family Leave

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Annual 2-night company retreat

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. 

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.

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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.