About the role
Overview
Welcome to the world of land-based and casino gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.
The Mission
Build and evolve the shared technology platform that powers Light & Wonder’s next generation gaming experiences across multiple platforms and hardware requirements.
Job Summary
As an Engineering Manager at Light & Wonder, you will lead the team that builds and operates the build, release, and asset pipeline behind our next generation gaming platform. You will manage and grow a team of engineers, set the technical direction for how our code and content get from game studios to a running game on every support platform.
Essential Job Functions
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team responsible for CI/CD, build system, development tools, and asset pipeline supporting game development.
- Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for build infrastructure, automation, developer tooling, and content/asset workflow.
- Own and continuously evolve the CI/CD pipeline across platforms, providing fast, reliable, and repeatable compilation, test orchestration, packaging, signing and release.
- Drive the development and optimization of asset pipelines, enabling efficient processing, validation and delivery of game content across supported platforms.
- Partner closely with test automation to integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows, improve test feedback cycles, and strengthen overall build and release quality.
- Collaborate with Game Development Kit (GDK) engineers, platform team and game studios to improve development workflows and deliver effective tools and automation.
- Ensure development infrastructure, tools, and pipelines are reliable, scalable, maintainable and efficient across every supported platform.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development efficiency, code quality, testing effectiveness, and team productivity.
- Stay current with industry trends and technologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time in building engineering, CI/CD, developer tools, and pipeline engineering.
- 3+ years engineering management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, mentoring and team performance.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, build systems, source control and automation.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in C++, C#, Python, or similar languages.
- Deep understand of Jenkins, Perforce/Git and on premise build infrastructure.
- Direct experience working on Unity, Unreal or a comparable commercial game engine.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to lead and mentor team members.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building cross-platform solutions is highly preferred.
Additional Information
- Work Location: Hybrid role based in Las Vegas, NV. Team members are expected to be in the office 4 days a week to support collaboration and studio culture.
- Regulatory & Compliance: Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. A due diligence/background investigation is a prerequisite to employment.