Software Development Manager

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., * 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 platforms.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development efficiency, code quality, testing effectiveness, and team productivity.
• Stay current with industry trends and technologies.

• 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.

• Experience building cross-platform solutions is highly preferred.

Welcome to the world of land-based 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.

Position SummaryEngineering Manager, Build Pipeline & ToolsGaming:

Welcome to the world of 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., The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, 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.

In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.