Advanced Software Engineer

Scientific Games • Alpharetta, GA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This Advanced Software Engineer position is part of the lottery division engineer team at Scientific Games. Your work on this team will help enable the funding of good causes like education, health care, senior citizens, roads, bridges, state parks and trails as well as the environment. Joining this team, you will be among peers in professional engineering that report up in small groups to a Software Development Manager. You will find these teams are made up of career-minded professionals that have chosen to be in the lottery industry. As an Advanced Software Engineer, you will need to be able to work both independently and as part of a team that works on complex systems with engineering challenges. You will be expected to have a strong technical foundation, extensive experience, and a proven ability to lead and mentor others, while also being proficient in the specific areas related to the code structure of the transaction engine.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science (or acceptable equivalent)
• Strong educational background
• 10+ 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 and broad skillset with a propensity for learning
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Json/Xml parsing
• System V IPC in a system with asynchronous processes
• OpenSSL use for Encryption/Decryption
• gSOAP
• PostgreSQL
• Java
• Ruby
• ANSI SQL
• Experience in SQL Server and T-SQL
• TCP/IP socket programming with proprietary protocols
• C/C++ RESTful consumers

Responsibilities

• Design, Code and debug source code and scripts
• Given requirements, document, suggest and design solutions
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior