Light & Wonder – iGaming

Company Description

Light & Wonder is the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment. The company brings together 5,000 employees from six continents to connect content between land-based and digital channels with unmatched technology and distribution. Guided by a culture that values daring teamwork and creativity, Light & Wonder builds new worlds of play, developing game experiences loved by players around the globe. The company’s OpenGaming(tm) platform powers the largest digital-gaming network in the industry. Light & Wonder is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more, visit lnw.com.

Job Description

We’re looking for a talented Technical Development Manager to help us develop our portfolio of online Bingo and Lottery products for our customers. The candidate should not only have a deep understanding of people & agile game development processes, but also be a strong technical leader who can help identify and drive architectural improvements to our Bingo platform.

This role requires someone with solid experience in leading continuous development in releases for our gaming platform, as well as shorter development cycles for online scratch ticket and similar games. The candidate should have proven experience tackling a wide variety of production tasks, including working and leading a team of developers, artists and QA engineers.

You will have experience working in creative industries and can demonstrate the success launching and managing games across global markets. We are looking for someone to join our team that will ensure a high level of productivity, agility, and is passionate about people and our products.

In addition to working on new product requirements, we are looking to improve our platform to ensure it can support ever increasing volumes of players and to reduce the timescales/effort of delivery to new customers. You will work with the existing team members to identify and drive through a program of work to allow us to meet these business objectives.

If you thrive in a dynamic and fun environment and can showcase proven successes on a wide variety of projects that you have lead, you’re seeking a fast-paced, friendly environment, then come and help us make games that will be successful worldwide.

Requirements:

• Hands on experience of delivering and working with complex, high volume systems
• Knowledge of the most common tools and methodologies for software development and design
• Able to make the right technical decisions driven by a commercial understanding
• Excellent ability to collaborate and manage the expectations of stakeholders, tailoring your approach when communicating to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work with the team to identify and prioritise technical improvements to the product
• Problem Solver. Identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as clearing roadblocks both on the day-to-day and in the longer term.
• Cheerlead. Provide motivation, direction, and improve best practices within the team.
• Excellent communication skills
• Great attention to detail
• Can-do attitude
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and decision-making skills
• Drive to keep learning and inspiring.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the digital creative industries
• Experience working with several of the following: SQL Server, React, Kafka, C++, AWS, Containers
• Experience and passion for agile development environment

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Excellent leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to transform business and people needs into tangible results, while inspiring and growing the teams, individuals, and processes simultaneously.
• Solid experience in implementing Agile-development-based best practices, principles, and methodologies.
• Experience of managing the full continuous development cycle, from planning a new release through to going live
• You are detail-oriented with great organizational skills and comfort with ambiguity.
• You have the ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• You are able to work with remote teams and across time zones to foster a cohesive and creative work environment.
• Ability to work within a highly technical environment and leading development in a high transactional environment.
• Experience of working with regulated markets
• Experience of ISO27001 and audits

Additional Information

A performance focused culture throughout the whole business. But that’s just the foundation! We also believe in an environment where we embrace people who are tuned in to the sound of creativity and innovation. Our office located in central Stockholm is something that we consider to be a huge plus, don’t you? As a truly international company, we can offer you the diversity and the opportunities of the world. Mix this with a people-friendly culture and we got a pretty good offer to give.

Light & Wonder – iGaming