Software Engineer - Intern

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

As a Software Engineer - Intern at Light & Wonder, you will join a collaborative, global engineering team that builds the technology behind our internal systems and customer-facing products. You will help maintain the automation and tools our engineers use to configure, build, package, deploy, and test software, and you will learn how a healthy software supply chain works in a real production environment.

Essential Job Functions

• Help maintain and improve build, packaging, deployment, and test automation
• Complete small development and scripting tasks that make our tools faster and more reliable
• Troubleshoot issues with internal systems and tools and help see them through to resolution
• Support day-to-day technical services and operational tasks alongside your team
• Work with engineers and peers to understand requirements, architecture, and development tools
• Research and evaluate new technologies and share what you learn with the team
• Document your work so others can build on it

Qualifications

• Entry level position, some experience in a software development environment preferred
• Currently pursuing or have completed a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• Genuine interest in DevOps and the software supply chain
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work well on a team.
• Good time management and organizational skills
• Detailed oriented and capable of working and completing tasks with supervision
• Exposure to virtual environments, Jenkins automation, Packer/Docker, Chocolatey desired
• Some Development abilities in C#, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP.Net, HTML, Perl, awk, Python, Lua, PowerShell, Bash.
• Experience with databases such as MS SQL Server
• Exposure to software version control systems; GitHub, Perforce
• This position requires 5 Days in Office

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses.   As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. 

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.