Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Gaming:
Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder its 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 Summary
Light & Wonder is seeking a Senior Manager Software Engineering to lead our Video and Game Development Technology (GDK) teams. This role is responsible for the software systems tools and frameworks that enable game studios to efficiently develop test and deliver high-quality video-based gaming content across cabinets and platforms.
As a senior engineering leader you will manage and grow a high-performing team focused on game-facing technology video systems tooling and workflows. You will partner closely with game studios platform teams hardware art sound and product stakeholders to ensure our game development ecosystem is scalable reliable and aligned with business and regulatory needs.
This role blends people leadership technical direction and cross-functional influence with a strong emphasis on enabling developers reducing friction in game production and evolving GDK as a product used across the organization.
Essential Job Functions:
Technical & Domain Leadership
Lead the design development and evolution of video rendering tooling and game development support systems used by internal game studios.
Own and evolve GDK components such as developer tooling frameworks pipelines and supporting services that enable game creation and iteration.
Provide technical direction across Unity-based workflows media pipelines and game-adjacent systems.
Ensure solutions meet performance reliability security and regulatory requirements in a highly regulated gaming environment.
People & Team Leadership
Manage mentor and develop a team of software engineers fostering a culture of ownership quality and continuous improvement.
Build team capability by reducing single points of failure and enabling shared ownership through documentation coaching and deliberate skill development.
Partner with engineers on career growth goal setting and performance feedback.
Support hiring and onboarding as the team scales.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with game studios platform engineering hardware art sound QA and product teams to deliver seamless game development solutions.
Translate studio needs into scalable technical solutions and tooling improvements.
Serve as a key technical and organizational interface between game teams and platform capabilities.
Qualifications
Training and/or Experience:
7 years of professional experience in software engineering including people leadership.
Experience leading teams responsible for game development tooling video systems or developer platforms.
Experience working closely with game developers artists and cross-disciplinary teams.
Gaming industry experience preferred but not required.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Strong software engineering background; experience with C# C Unity or related game-adjacent technologies.
Familiarity with video pipelines rendering systems or media-heavy workflows is a plus.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycles tooling and CI/CD practices.
Proven ability to lead mentor and scale engineering teams.
Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across teams.
Comfortable balancing technical depth with people leadership and organizational priorities.
Additional Information
This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago studio. Team members are expected to be in the office3 days aweektosupport collaboration and studio culture.
Physical Requirement
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit stand walk bend use hands operate a computer and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.
Work Conditions
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.
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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. If youd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law please click here for EEOC Poster.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
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