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At Light & Wonder, It’s all about the games, and our digital team leads the global iGaming market, providing jaw-dropping content and innovative software that powers the world's most successful online gaming providers.\nPosition Summary\nLight & 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.\nWe are on the look out for an experienced, smart, and creative individual to work in a primarily technical role. As a Senior Software Engineer you will be working within a high performing agile team alongside other Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Software Architects, DevOps Engineers and Business teams to shape and implement the technology and product deliverables that will drive forward our strategic initiatives.\nYou will be required to participate in all stages of the software product development life cycle. This may include analyzing systems, micro-services, web services, making the most out of amazon web services, participating in the requirement capturing process, writing clean Java code, troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality and performance.\nIdeal candidates are engineers with at least 5 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. \nWe expect that you will be able to use any additional technological skills in your arsenal to improve the team's efficiency and problem-solving abilities while developing into a well-rounded engineer.\nAs part of our team, you will\nParticipate in all stages of the software development life cycle\n\nWrite well designed and efficient code\n\nWork with others as part of a self-organizing team to design, build, and run products and services hosted on-premises and in the cloud.\n\nReview and refactor existing code to improve our platform's reliability, robustness, performance, and operability.\n\nWork within a high-performance team running kanban and incrementally deliver value to the business following set priorities.\n\nBecome part of a value-oriented culture ensuring the quality of products and services delivered by the team.\n\nLead engineers on large product initiatives, providing technical coaching to less experienced engineers.\n\nQualifications\nExcellent and demonstrable knowledge of the Java programming language, with at least 5 years of commercial experience.\n\nExperience in developing RESTful applications with Spring boot or related frameworks.\n\nFamiliarity with AWS, Cloud Native applications and Microservice architectures\n\nExperience working with relational (SQL, DDL, ACID) and non-relational databases.\n\nComfortable with Unix/Linux environments\n\nExcellent analysis and problem-solving skills\n\nExcellent communication skills, both written and spoken\n\nNice to have\nExperience with caching strategies using Redis / Hazelcast\n\nFamiliar with messaging by using Kafka / RabbitMQ or others\n\nFamiliarity with Continuous Deployment and Integration tools (Jenkins, Docker, etc)\n\nExperience leading a small team of developers\n\nExperience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)\n\nFrontend experience (HTML, JavaScript, React) is a plus\n\nExperience acting as the primary technical decision-maker for a team, platform, product, or major project.\n\nAdditional Information\nWhy would you enjoy working with us atLight & Wonder?\nCompetitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.\n\nThe opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow.\n\nExciting projects with opportunities for creating positive change to our game engineering ecosystem.\n\nAnd if that is not enough; you will get to enjoy a stunning work location and flexible hybrid working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.\nLocation Athens, Greece or Sofia, Bulgaria. 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