Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Lottery Technology & Systems

sglottery; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Games is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join the lottery division. You will design, code, and debug complex transaction processing software, lead and mentor peers, and collaborate across teams to improve system quality.

The role emphasizes C/C++ on Linux, multi-threaded development, and strong software design expertise. You’ll work within a regulated lottery environment, participate in requirement gathering, code reviews, and occasionally support production systems.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science (or acceptable equivalent).
• Strong educational background.
• 8+ years' programming experience, preferably on a large-scale transaction processing system.
• Procedural application development in C on Linux.
• Low-level programming and debugging with C/C++.
• Extensive experience with a broad skillset and willingness to learn.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns and architecture.
• Shared memory and memory mapping.
• Strong usage of data structures and binary serialization of data structures.
• Proc SQL
• Shell scripting (BASH) and basic Unix tools (awk, sed, tail, head, grep, etc)
• Experience with version control systems.
• Multi-threaded development

Responsibilities

• Design, code and debug source code and scripts.
• Document, suggest and design solutions given requirements.
• Participate in the requirements gathering phase of development projects.
• Participate in code reviews as needed.
• Occasionally participate in the support of production lottery systems when issues arise as an engineering expert.
• Additional, stringent State specific background checks on top of SG base checks.
• The position can have up to travel 10% or less.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

C/C++

Linux

Multi-threaded

Memory management

Data structures

Software design patterns

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSSL

gSOAP

Postgres

Ruby

Angular

Python

Java

SQL Server / T-SQL

TCP/IP sockets

Job description

Scientific Games is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join the lottery division. You will design, code, and debug complex transaction processing software, lead and mentor peers, and collaborate across teams to improve system quality.

The role emphasizes C/C++ on Linux, multi-threaded development, and strong software design expertise. You’ll work within a regulated lottery environment, participate in requirement gathering, code reviews, and occasionally support production systems.