Software Engineer

Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games and technology, seeking a Software Engineer to join their lottery division engineering team. The role involves developing and maintaining complex transaction processing systems and supporting production systems to enable funding for good causes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, code, test, and debug source code and scripts
• Participate in solution discussions and contribute to technical designs based on requirements
• Participate in the requirements gathering phase of development projects
• Participate in code reviews and follow development best practices
• Assist in supporting production lottery systems when issues arise
• Work collaboratively with team members to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Complete additional state-specific background checks beyond SG base checks as required
• Position may require travel up to 5% or less
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science (or acceptable equivalent experience)
• Strong educational and technical background
• 3–7 years of programming experience, preferably in transaction processing or large-scale systems
• Procedural application development in C on a Linux platform
• Understanding of software development principles and debugging techniques
• Strong knowledge and understanding of SQL Server databases
• Shared memory and memory mapping concepts
• Experience working with data structures and binary data handling
• Shell scripting (BASH) and familiarity with Unix tools (awk, sed, tail, head, grep, etc.)
• Experience with version control systems
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to learn new technologies and systems quickly
• JSON/XML parsing
• Familiarity with multi-threaded development concepts
• System V IPC
• OpenSSL for encryption/decryption
• Proc SQL or ANSI SQL
• Json/Xml parsing
• gSOAP
• System V IPC in a system with asynchronous processes
• Postgres or SQL Server experience
• TCP/IP socket programming with proprietary protocols
• RESTful service integration in C/C++
• Ruby or scripting language experience
• TFS and GIT experience are beneficial
• Lottery industry experience is a plus