Technical Manager - Software Engineering

About Company

Light & Wonder is a global leader in game experiences. We create content, hardware and systems that connect iconic titles across any place or channel. By turning games into expansive entertainment, we keep thrilling players with characters and stories they can’t get enough of.

Light & Wonder, Inc. is the leading cross-platform global games company. Through our three unique, yet highly complementary businesses, we deliver unforgettable experiences by combining the exceptional talents of our 6,000+ member team with a deep understanding of our customers and players. We create immersive content that forges lasting connections with players, wherever they choose to engage. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games. The Company is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more, visit (www.lnw.com)

We are committed to offering very competitive benefits that are aligned with our values and inspire employees to drive innovation and contribute to the organization’s performance. Employees are the most valued resource, and we always look to improve their well-being with a wide range of benefits befitting every individual. Not limited to monetary benefits, we have robust learning and development opportunities that help them to grow professionally.

Our Values

• Dare to be bold: We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways.

• Celebrate perspectives - We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways

• Never settle: We relentlessly push forward to create the extraordinary in every detail.

• Uphold integrity: We promote accountability and respect to raise the bar for ourselves and the industry.

• Win as a team: We bring out the best in each other to share collective success.

Technical Manager- Job Description

Job Location:  ITPL Whitefield - Bangalore

Required Experience: 10+ years

Job Description Summary: -

Light & Wonder is the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment. The company brings together 6,000 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. We create our own award-winning games and also partner with premium licensees such as Hasbro, Warner Bros and others to bring franchises like Monopoly, James Bond and The Wizard of Oz to life in online gaming products. 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. 

Based in Pune, LnW are looking for an experienced Development Manager who be responsible for the successful management of a team delivering multiple Light and Wonder projects such as launching content into new markets, large feature improvements, supporting live incidents, recertifications and engaging with the maths team on game accuracy checks. The Development Manager will be expected to oversee multiple projects in parallel, providing technical guidance to the development and QA teams.

The Development Manager position at LnW consists of a balance of four main areas of responsibility: 

• Technical leadership: Understand the platform and technologies used and guide future direction in both of development and QA 

• Team leadership: Coaching, support and development of the team 

• Stakeholder liaison: A trusted point of contact between LnW professional service teams and commercial teams 

• Incidents: Management of, and escalation path for live production incidents. 

Key Tasks 

• Support and maintain game engines on our GDM and RGS platforms 

• Establish, maintain, and oversee all aspects of QA processes and methodologies to ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices 

• Manage a team of approximately 3 developers and 2 QAs 

• Manage and contribute to technical end-to-end delivery of games 

• Become a primary point of contact for and maintain strong relationships with both external and internal customers 

• Lead code reviews, set coding standards and ensure they are met by deliverables 

• Ensure engineering and QA best practice principles are applied at all times 

• Design solutions that are compatible with the strategic direction of the company 

• Support the recruitment process of technical resources 

Responsible for 

• Ownership for management of a squad and software quality and delivery assigned to it. Mentoring team members and building a healthy productive culture. 

Liaison with 

• The role will interact directly with the Development managers, QA Lead, project managers, product managers, architecture and other team members 

Qualifications 

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED: 

• 3+ years people management skills including experience managing development and QA teams 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken 

• Experience interacting with customers, external partners and business stakeholders 

• Demonstrable talent coding in Java, J2EE and their application with design patterns 

• Experience with Java Spring Framework, Guice or similar framework 

• Disciplined approach to testing 

• Good knowledge of large-scale website or application architectures and technology stacks 

• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns 

• Experience with various development methodologies; Agile, TDD or Kanban 

• Experience in deploying, configuring and maintaining Java Servlet container such as Tomcat 

• Excellent Unix/ Linux skills 

• Database design skills (any vendor) 

• Experience reviewing others work for performance, security, efficiency and portability 

• Ability to multi-task and rapidly switch contexts 

• Ideally 5+ years of experience building web applications 

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS: 

• Performance tuning skills, including refactoring, code profiling and monitoring 

• Automated testing and CI 

• Some scripting skills: Bash, Python, etc... 

• Release management and configuration management experience 

• English proficiency. 

• Avid communicator. 

• Organised, proactive, and results driven. 

• End-user empathy and understanding of business strategy. 

• Adaptability. 

Personal Profile: 

• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient, focused and determined 

• Well organized and consistently meets commitments. 

• Requires a “can do” commitment to achieve the success. 

• Detail oriented and Strong communication skills.

• Comfortable leading cross functional teams. 

Education 

• Bachelors degree in related field. 

 
Years of Related Experience 

• Years of experience 10+ years