Principal Software Architect (iGaming)

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada; on-site presence required four days per week. Candidates based in Chicago, Illinois are also considered, with preference for Las Vegas.

Company

Light & Wonder develops gaming technology, products, and content for casinos and gaming operators worldwide.

What you will do

• Define and drive the architecture strategy for migrating legacy gaming technology stacks to the Carbon platform.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, shared frameworks, SDKs, CI/CD pipelines, telemetry, and development tooling across studios and business units.
• Design scalable, maintainable, and performant architectures for enterprise game development ecosystems.
• Guide the use and integration of Unity, Godot, proprietary engines, and supporting toolchains.
• Lead architectural reviews, technical design sessions, modernization roadmaps, and complex technical problem-solving.
• Partner with engineering, product, compliance, infrastructure, QA, and executive stakeholders to align technical direction and manage risks.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in game development technologies and modern software architecture.
• Experience with Unity, Godot, or custom game engine technologies.
• Experience providing cross-functional technical leadership and influencing teams without direct authority.
• Ability to design systems meeting performance, reliability, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-enabled workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly regulated gaming environment with global market requirements.
• Collaborate across multiple studios, business units, platform engineering, product, compliance, infrastructure, and QA.
• Architectural decisions balance platform consistency, studio autonomy, innovation, and regulatory obligations.
• Employment may require gaming or other licenses, background investigations, security checks, and compliance with applicable legal or contractual standards.