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| Aspect | Lead Server Engineer | Server Engineer |
|---|---|---|
| Responsibilities | Oversees server infrastructure, leads team, designs architecture | Maintains and supports server systems, implements updates |
| Required Skills | Advanced server management, leadership, scripting | Server configuration, troubleshooting, scripting |
| Certifications | Linux/Windows certifications, cloud certifications | Linux/Windows certifications |
| Work Environment | Team leadership, project planning | Hands-on server support, maintenance |
The main difference is that Lead Server Engineers oversee server infrastructure and lead teams, while Server Engineers focus on maintaining and supporting server systems. The Lead role involves more strategic planning and leadership responsibilities, whereas the Server Engineer role is more technical and operational.

Job description
SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.
SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!
Position Summary
About The RoleWe're hiring a Lead Server Engineer for Gold Fish Casino Slots. It's a nine-figure-revenue PHP codebase that's been shipping continuously for over a decade. Here's the honest version: the codebase has history. Ten years of overlapping initiatives, partial migrations, and code that needs love sitting next to code that does its job well. The job is making this codebase substantially better, not keeping it from getting worse. We're being selective. We care more about finding the right person than filling the seat quickly.
Technical depth is the minimum bar. The harder thing this role asks for is judgment about where to spend it. You need to be able to discern priorities at two levels. The first is technical execution order across a long arc of work: what unblocks what, what's safe to ship in isolation, what needs to wait. The second is your own scope: what to take on yourself, what to design and hand off, what to coordinate across the team. Most strong engineers can do one. We need someone who does both.
You'll work with engineering leadership on roadmap and tradeoffs. You set technical standards by example, mentor mid-level engineers through complex work, and write code. This is a hands-on role, not a planning role.
Beyond the game server, you'll also have influence in our admin tooling stack: a PHP backend with jQuery and Vue.js on the front end, which has its own rough edges and its own room for improvement.
Non-NegotiablesYou use AI as a power tool, not a teammate. It makes you faster on the parts of the job where speed is the bottleneck: investigation, learning, repetitive work, drafting. You treat its output as a first draft. Understand, test, own. The engineering judgment stays with you. AI doesn't remove it; it demands more of it.
You're an excellent communicator. You surface tradeoffs and risks early, with evidence. Your design docs and PR descriptions are clear enough that engineers can act on them without a meeting. Your code reviews make the team better. You know when to escalate and you do it.
What You'll Need- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time as a senior or lead engineer on a production system
- Deep PHP, including Composer, dependency injection containers (Symfony DI or equivalent), and static analysis
- You can call priorities at two levels: technical execution order, and your own scope
- You write code that runs in production. You think about load, failure modes, and what keeps us all sleeping at 2AM where we belong.
- Testing judgment. You know when to write a unit test, when to invest in heavier verification, and when to ship behind a flag.
- You've technically led or mentored other engineers. Your code and your reviews set the standard for the team.
- Relentlessly curious. You don't just fix the bug. You figure out how it got there, whether it exists anywhere else, and what the system would look like if it couldn't.
- Critical thinker. You ask why a pattern exists before accepting it, and you pressure-test the first answer before moving on.
- Designs for the codebase that exists. You can hold competing patterns in your head and decide when to converge them and when to leave them alone. You don't propose rewrites you can't ship.
- Team multiplier. You make the engineers around you better through code review, design conversations, and pairing. Not just by writing the hard parts yourself.
- Product-minded. You understand that the code you write is experienced by real players, and that "behavior-preserving refactor" is a phrase that matters.
- Experience with large-scale architectural refactors on legacy PHP
- Production experience with modern observability stacks (metrics, tracing, profiling, structured logs)
- Experience in the live-service games industry or another high-throughput, revenue-critical consumer service
- Experience with Vue.js or jQuery
- AWS or similar cloud technology
We are SciPlay! We make games!
At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! We are the brainiacs behind-the-scenes;innovating, dreaming, and navigating the social gaming world. Together, if we stay passionate and ambitious with our goals, no one can stop us from becoming the #1 social and casual gaming company.
A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:
- Competitive salaries
- Annual bonuses, matching 401k
- Funenvironment:OpenOffice Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks.Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.
- Food!Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week
- Paid Family Leave
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Annual 2-night company retreat
Read More About Our Values Here:
https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU
SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games! Learn more atwww.lnw.com.
SciPlay Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, SciPlay) are committed to creating a workforce of credibility and dependability. As a prerequisite to employment with SciPlay (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SciPlay 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. SciPlay 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 hereEEOC Poster.
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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.
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.
About SciPlay
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Company size
201 - 500 Employees
Headquarters location
Las Vegas, NV, US
Year founded
2019