Principal Back-End Software Engineer
Light & Wonder, Inc.20 hours ago
Sofia, Bulgaria or Maroúsi, GreeceStaff+
Responsibilities
- Write, review, and own production-quality backend code as a significant day-to-day individual contributor.
- Drive code quality through TDD, clean architecture principles, and rigorous code reviews.
- Set engineering standards for CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, and release practices.
- Collaborate with solution and enterprise architects on backend architecture, API design, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native deployment strategies.
- Create technical designs, solution design documents, API specifications, and integration workflow diagrams.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of engineers while serving as the team’s primary technical escalation point.
- Run sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming, and coordinate deliverables with product, delivery, QA, infrastructure, security, and operations stakeholders.
- Build and maintain observability dashboards, alerting, and runbooks, and lead incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
- Champion infrastructure-as-code, automated deployments, and shift-left testing practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrable hands-on coding in recent roles.
- Proven experience leading small engineering teams of 2–8 people from design through production.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and modern cloud-native patterns.
- Practical experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems including Apache Kafka, SQS/SNS, and RabbitMQ.
- Expertise with AWS, including ECS/EKS, RDS for PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, and network configuration.
- Experience with API design and security using OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth 2.0, and JWT.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Splunk and Grafana or equivalent tools.
- Ability to produce design documents and communicate confidently with non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-sensitive industries such as iGaming, fintech, or media is advantageous.
- Hands-on experience with WSO2 API Manager or similar API gateway or IAM platforms is a nice-to-have.
- Familiarity with PAM or iGaming platform concepts is a nice-to-have.
- Experience with Terraform and Helm is a nice-to-have.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure, or Confluent Kafka certification is a nice-to-have.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and an open, supportive work environment.
- Modern workplace with opportunities to work on projects that improve the game engineering ecosystem.
- Regular interaction with global teams and opportunities to switch teams and projects as the business develops.
- Flexible working arrangement in Athens, Greece, or Sofia, Bulgaria; the position is hybrid and may be filled in either location.
- Guidance and development opportunities to support career progression.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLRabbitMQSplunkSpring BootTerraform
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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.