Software Development Manager

Light & Wonder • Las Vegas, NV

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager at Light & Wonder, you will lead the team that builds and operates the build, release, and asset pipeline behind our next generation gaming platform. You will manage and grow a team of engineers, set the technical direction for how our code and content get from game studios to a running game on every support platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time in building engineering, CI/CD, developer tools, and pipeline engineering.
• 3+ years engineering management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, mentoring and team performance.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, build systems, source control and automation.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in C++, C#, Python, or similar languages.
• Deep understand of Jenkins, Perforce/Git and on premise build infrastructure.
• Direct experience working on Unity, Unreal or a comparable commercial game engine.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to lead and mentor team members.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building cross-platform solutions is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team responsible for CI/CD, build system, development tools, and asset pipeline supporting game development.
• Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for build infrastructure, automation, developer tooling, and content/asset workflow.
• Own and continuously evolve the CI/CD pipeline across platforms, providing fast, reliable, and repeatable compilation, test orchestration, packaging, signing and release.
• Drive the development and optimization of asset pipelines, enabling efficient processing, validation and delivery of game content across supported platforms.
• Partner closely with test automation to integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows, improve test feedback cycles, and strengthen overall build and release quality.
• Collaborate with Game Development Kit(GDK) engineers, platform team and game studios to improve development workflows and deliver effective tools and automation.
• Ensure development infrastructure, tools, and pipelines are reliable, scalable, maintainable and efficient across every supported platforms.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve development efficiency, code quality, testing effectiveness, and team productivity.
• Stay current with industry trends and technologies.

What This Job Offers

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