Senior Game Framework Engineer — Cross-Platform & Performance

Light & Wonder; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days' holiday + bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

Light & Wonder in Manchester seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help design and evolve a cross‑platform game framework powering experiences across web, mobile, desktop, and land‑based gaming platforms. You will work with game developers, QA, and platform teams in an Agile environment to deliver scalable solutions and high‑quality code.

You will influence technical direction, tackle complex performance challenges, and stay current with gaming and tech trends to drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Proven experience building complex, scalable, and maintainable software systems.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in TypeScript, C#, or C++.
• Hands-on experience with modern game engines such as Unreal or Unity.
• Experience working in Agile teams and delivering iteratively.

Responsibilities

• Help build and evolve a cross‑platform game framework used across web, mobile, desktop, and land-based platforms.
• Design and develop core framework components used across multiple games and teams.
• Influence architecture to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions for the future.
• Solve performance and optimisation challenges across platforms and languages.
• Write clean, high‑quality code and promote engineering best practices across the team.
• Collaborate closely with game developers, QA, and platform engineering in Agile environments.
• Share knowledge and drive continuous improvement within the engineering function.

Skills

OO programming

TypeScript

C#

C++

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript)

Job description

Light & Wonder in Manchester seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help design and evolve a cross‑platform game framework powering experiences across web, mobile, desktop, and land‑based gaming platforms. You will work with game developers, QA, and platform teams in an Agile environment to deliver scalable solutions and high‑quality code.

You will influence technical direction, tackle complex performance challenges, and stay current with gaming and tech trends to drive continuous improvement