Senior Software Engineer - Gaming Framework (Cross-Platform)

lnw; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual performance bonus

25 days' holiday plus bank holidays

1 day paid leave to work on charitable

1 day paid for personal celebration e\

Half Day for Health (wellbeing)

Up to 8% employer pension contribu­t­i

Reward platform offering

Job summary

Light & Wonder is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a next‑generation game framework used across web, mobile, desktop, and land‑based platforms. You will design core components, influence technical direction, and tackle cross‑platform performance challenges.

You will contribute to a scalable engineering function, collaborating with game developers, QA, and platform teams in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building complex, scalable software systems.
• Strong object‑oriented programming skills with TS/C#/C++ or similar.
• Hands-on experience with modern game engines (Unreal/Unity).
• Experience in Agile software development teams.
• Performance‑focused problem solving balancing technical excellence and business needs.
• Strong collaboration and communication across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve a cross‑platform game framework powering web, mobile, desktop, and land-based platforms.
• Design and develop core framework components used across multiple games and teams.
• Influence architecture and engineering direction for scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Resolve performance and optimisation challenges across languages and environments.
• Write clean, high‑quality code and promote engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with game developers, QA, and platform teams in Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban).
• Stay current with emerging gaming tech and apply innovations to the framework.

Skills

OOP programming

Game engines

Agile methods

Team collaboration

Performance optimisation

Software architecture

Job description

Light & Wonder is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a next‑generation game framework used across web, mobile, desktop, and land‑based platforms. You will design core components, influence technical direction, and tackle cross‑platform performance challenges.

You will contribute to a scalable engineering function, collaborating with game developers, QA, and platform teams in an Agile environment.