Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Job Description

Ballys Intralot supplies integrated gaming and transaction processing systems innovative game content and value-added services to state-licensed gaming organizations. Drawing on extensive know-how advanced product development standards and substantial experience operating lottery games the company delivers custom-built integrated solutions that combine operational efficiency with rigorous security and regulatory compliance.

Our games library includes more than 400 game types: numerical lotteries TV lottery games sports lotteries fixed odds betting instant lotteries pari-mutuel video lottery and monitor games.

This role sits on the team building and operating our next-generation lottery platform a cloud-native containerized microservices-based system with a React front end services and a MySQL data tier deployed through automated CI/CD pipelines onto Kubernetes. Engineers on this team work across the full delivery lifecycle from design and implementation through automated testing deployment and production support of a high-availability real-time transaction platform.

Education Training and Experience

• B.S. in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field; or an equivalent combination of training and experience

• 23 years of experience as a Software Engineer with demonstrated continual increase in responsibilities

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience building web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript including React on the front end and on the back end

• At least 1 year of experience with a relational database preferably MySQL

• Practical experience with containerized applications (Docker) and with source control and CI/CD tooling (Git automated build and deployment pipelines)

• Exposure to microservices architectures and container orchestration (Kubernetes) is strongly preferred

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Application Development

• Knowledge of standard software engineering concepts practices and procedures including code review version control branching strategies and automated testing

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript with strong React experience (component design state management hooks responsive UI)

• Strong server-side development experience in including RESTful API design authentication and authorization and integration with downstream services

• Experience designing and consuming service-to-service interfaces (REST JSON and message-based/event-driven integration)

• Familiarity with front-end build tooling package management and modern testing frameworks (for example Jest and end-to-end UI testing tools)

• Working knowledge of additional languages such as Java C C Python or shell scripting is an advantage

Data and Reporting

• Very strong SQL skills including schema design indexing query tuning and stored procedures

• Experience with MySQL administration fundamentals: migrations backup/restore concepts replication and performance troubleshooting

• Experience developing and deploying operational and business reports in a web environment; experience with JReports (or a comparable enterprise reporting platform such as Jasper BIRT or Crystal Reports) is preferred

• Understanding of data warehousing analytical/OLAP reporting and data reconciliation concepts

Platform Cloud and DevOps

• Hands-on experience containerizing applications with Docker and running workloads on Kubernetes; familiarity with Helm charts config maps secrets and service discovery

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated build test and deployment and with promoting releases across environments

• Understanding of microservices design concerns: service boundaries versioning resilience idempotency and backward compatibility

• Familiarity with observability practices structured logging metrics tracing and alerting and with using them to diagnose production issues

• Working knowledge of Linux/UNIX environments; comfort on the command line

• Awareness of secure development practices relevant to regulated gaming: secrets management least-privilege access secure handling of credentials and audit logging

Domain and Professional Skills

• Product software development experience with a strong track record of delivering and supporting production systems

• Experience coding for real-time high-volume event-driven transaction processing systems

• Understanding of high-availability and disaster-recovery concepts in a mission-critical environment

• Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team member in an Agile delivery model

• Good oral and written communication skills including the ability to document designs and explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design develop test and maintain software applications microservices and specialized utility programs for the lottery platform

• Build and maintain React front-end applications and services that meet functional performance and security requirements

• Design and optimize MySQL schemas queries and data access layers supporting high-volume transaction processing

• Develop and maintain operational and regulatory reports using the platform reporting toolset

• Containerize services and maintain Kubernetes deployment manifests and configuration across environments

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipeline definitions automated tests and quality gates to support frequent low-risk releases

• Analyze lottery and customer requirements and translate them into technical designs that optimize operational efficiency and efficacy

• Participate in code reviews design reviews testing analysis and the certification of software for regulated jurisdictions

• Support software installation release deployment and configuration in customer and internal environments

• Troubleshoot and resolve defects and production incidents including participation in an on-call or escalation rotation as required

• Produce and maintain technical documentation for the systems and components owned by the team

• Other duties as assigned

Ballys Intralot offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical Dental & Vision Insurance

• 6% 401k Match

• Paid Holidays & Vacation

• Paid Sick Short/Long Term Disability

• Employee Assistance Program

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Discount Programs

Travel

Some travel required.

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