Principal Software Architect
Light & Wonder, Inc.5 months ago
Chicago, IL, USA or Las Vegas, NV, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architecture strategy for migrating legacy gaming technology stacks to the Carbon platform.
- Establish enterprise-wide engineering standards, architectural patterns, development practices, shared frameworks, SDKs, deployment approaches, telemetry, and development tooling.
- Design scalable, maintainable, and performant architectures for enterprise game development ecosystems.
- Provide architectural guidance for Unity, Godot, proprietary engines, and related toolchains.
- Lead architectural reviews, technical design sessions, modernization roadmaps, and build-versus-buy evaluations.
- Guide integration between shared platform technologies and studio-specific game implementations.
- Support automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-enabled workflows.
- Ensure architectures meet performance, reliability, security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Identify technical risks and guide mitigation strategies while advising leadership on modernization and platform investments.
- Collaborate with studio engineering, platform engineering, product management, infrastructure, QA, compliance, security, and executive leadership.
- Influence technical direction across teams without direct authority and communicate architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience is required.
- Deep expertise in game development technologies, modern software architecture, and cross-functional technical leadership.
- Highly desired experience with Unity, Godot, and custom engine technologies.
- Ability to define enterprise architecture strategy, lead technical design, and guide modernization across multiple business units.
- Ability to balance platform consistency, studio autonomy, innovation, business objectives, and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to work in a highly regulated gaming environment and meet applicable licensing, background investigation, security, and legal requirements.
Benefits
- The role is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and requires on-site presence four days per week.
- Candidates based in Chicago, Illinois are considered, though Las Vegas is preferred.
- Employment may require gaming or other licenses, background investigations, security checks, and consent to a due diligence investigation.
- Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Tech Stack
GodotUnity
Categories
Gaming
About Light & Wonder, Inc.
Light & Wonder, Inc. builds casino gaming machines, table systems, and the OpenGaming iGaming platform, licensing slot and table game content to land-based casinos and online gaming operators. The company generates revenue from hardware sales, platform and systems deals, and game content licensing. Headquartered in Las Vegas, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker LNW and serves regulated gaming markets in North America, Europe, and other jurisdictions.