Sglottery

Sglottery

Software Engineer – Transaction Engine, C, Unix

Alpharetta, GA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
C++RubyBashData StructuresCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLLinuxRESTData AnalysisControlsTCP/IPCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Job Ti tle: Software Engineer - Transaction Engine, C, Unix
  • This Software Engineering position is part of the lottery division engineering team at Scientific Games.
  • Your work on this team will help enable the funding of good causes like education, health care, senior citizens, roads, bridges, state parks and trails, as well as the environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, code, test, and debug source code and scripts.
  • Participate in solution discussions and contribute to technical designs based on requirements.
  • These teams are made up of career-minded professionals who have chosen to build solutions within the lottery industry.
  • As a Software Engineer, you will work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team developing and maintaining complex transaction processing systems.
  • You should have a solid technical foundation, a willingness to learn, and the ability to contribute to software design, development, testing, and support activities related to the transaction engine.
  • The day-to-day job includes implementing changes, supporting production systems, estimating work effort, and developing new features.

Requirements

  • 3-7 years of programming experience, preferably in transaction processing or large-scale systems
  • Experience working with data structures and binary data handling
  • Experience with version control systems
  • Ability to learn new technologies and systems quickly
  • Complete additional state-specific background checks beyond SG base checks as required.
  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
  • Education
  • BS in Computer Science (or acceptable equivalent experience)
  • Strong educational and technical background
  • Years of Related Experience
  • Physical Requirements
  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.
  • Work Conditions
  • Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, "SG") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG 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.

Nice to have

  • JSON/XML parsing
  • Familiarity with multi-threaded development concepts
  • OpenSSL for encryption/decryption
  • Proc SQL or ANSI SQL
  • 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++

This listing is sourced directly from Sglottery's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.