Lead Software Engineer

About this role

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Position Summary

## About The Role

We're hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Gold Fish Casino Slots. It's a nine-figure-revenue PHP codebase that's been shipping continuously for over a decade. Here's the honest version: the codebase has history. Ten years of overlapping initiatives, partial migrations, and code that needs love sitting next to code that does its job well. The job is making this codebase substantially better, not keeping it from getting worse. We're being selective. We care more about finding the right person than filling the seat quickly.

Technical depth is the minimum bar. The harder thing this role asks for is judgment about where to spend it. You need to be able to discern priorities at two levels. The first is technical execution order across a long arc of work: what unblocks what, what's safe to ship in isolation, what needs to wait. The second is your own scope: what to take on yourself, what to design and hand off, what to coordinate across the team. Most strong engineers can do one. We need someone who does both.

You'll work with engineering leadership on roadmap and tradeoffs. You set technical standards by example, mentor mid-level engineers through complex work, and write code. This is a hands-on role, not a planning role.

Beyond the game server, you'll also have influence in our admin tooling stack: a PHP backend with jQuery and Vue.js on the front end, which has its own rough edges and its own room for imp...