{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"95b98c94471f3dc2f729be4d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/95b98c94471f3dc2f729be4d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/95b98c94471f3dc2f729be4d","title":"Lead Software Engineer","description":"Position SummaryWe’re hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Gold Fish Casino Slots. It’s a nine‑figure‑revenue PHP codebase that has shipped continuously for over a decade. The codebase has a long history of overlapping initiatives, partial migrations, and legacy code that needs love. Your job will be to make this codebase substantially better, not keep it from getting worse.\r\nYou’ll work with engineering leadership on roadmaps and trade‑offs. 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 influence our admin tooling stack—a PHP backend with jQuery and Vue.js on the front end— which has its own rough edges and room for improvement.\r\nNon‑NegotiablesYou use AI as a power tool, not a teammate. It helps with repetitive work, drafting, and learning—but the engineering judgment stays with you.\r\nYou’re an excellent communicator, surfacing trade‑offs and risks early with evidence.\r\nYour design docs and PR descriptions are clear enough that engineers can act on them without a meeting.\r\nYour code reviews make the team better, and you know when to raise issues.\r\nWhat You’ll Need7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time as a senior or lead engineer on a production system.\r\nDeep PHP skills, including Composer, dependency injection containers (Symfony DI or equivalent), and static analysis.\r\nAbility to set priority at two levels: technical execution order, and personal scope.\r\nExperience writing production‑ready code that considers load, failure modes, and night‑time stability.\r\nJudgment about testing: when to ship a unit test, invest in heavier verification, or ship behind a flag.\r\nTechnical leadership and mentoring experience: your code and reviews set the standard for the team.\r\nAbout YouRelentlessly curious—figuring out why a bug exists and how the system would look without it.\r\nCritical thinker—challenging patterns and pressure‑testing the first answer.\r\nDesign‑savvy—holding competing patterns in mind and deciding when to converge or leave them alone.\r\nTeam multiplier—improving teammates through code review, design conversations, and pairing, not just by writing the hard parts.\r\nProduct‑minded—understanding that code directly affects real players, so behavior‑preserving refactors matter.\r\nBonus PointsLarge‑scale architectural refactors on legacy PHP.\r\nProduction experience with modern observability stacks (metrics, tracing, profiling, structured logs).\r\nLive‑service games industry or another high‑throughput, revenue‑critical consumer service.\r\nExperience with Vue.js or jQuery.\r\nAWS or similar cloud technology.\r\nBenefitsCompetitive salary.\r\nAnnual bonuses, matching 401(k).\r\nOpen office concept with ergonomic seating and standing desks.\r\nGame room featuring current‑generation consoles, multiple game titles, and table games.\r\nFully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks, and company‑paid lunches twice a week.\r\nPaid family leave.\r\nPaid volunteer time.\r\nAnnual two‑night company retreat.\r\nEqual Opportunity StatementSciPlay is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other protected classes. 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