Full-Stack Engineer

Join Aristocrat, where we build world-class gaming experiences that deliver happiness to millions! As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will work in an agile, well-resourced environment blending startup energy with established company strengths. This role plays a key part in crafting the future of our social casino games, providing an outstanding opportunity to innovate and influence player experiences worldwide.

What You'll Do

• Participate in end-to-end feature development, growing social and gameplay systems.
• Own features from concept through release and monitoring.
• Implement frontend functionality in JavaScript across iOS, Android, and Web.
• Compose and build backend services and APIs in PHP to power new gameplay, social, and LiveOps features.
• Develop scalable RESTful APIs consumed by client applications.
• Contribute to data modeling and persistence for player progression, rewards, and events.
• Improve backend efficiency to handle high concurrency and sizable player populations.
• Ensure features are reliable, testable, and production-ready.
• Assess and optimize frontend and backend performance to provide a fluid player experience.
• Partner with Product to scope technical solutions and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Monitor post-launch performance and iterate based on player behavior and metrics.
• Translate creative concepts into engaging, scalable systems.
• Help foster an inclusive engineering atmosphere dedicated to education and constant progress.
• Proactively find opportunities to improve architecture, tooling, and delivery practices.

What We're Looking For

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with JavaScript in production environments.
• Experience building backend services in a live environment.
• Experience crafting and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of client-server architecture.
• Experience contributing to features through the full development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a player-first approach.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience developing backend services in PHP (strongly preferred).
• Experience working within an existing PHP codebase.
• Experience building gameplay systems such as events, rewards, progression, or social mechanics.
• Experience in mobile gaming, social casino, or Games-as-a-Service environments.
• Familiarity with experimentation, feature flags, or live feature delivery.
• Mobile development experience (iOS and/or Android).

This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.

Compensation Philosophy

We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.

Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.

Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.

Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content. Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people. We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.

Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day. We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play!

Employment Equality Statement

Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law.

If you need assistance or accommodation applying for a position, please reach out to helpdesk-recruiting@aristocrat.com.

Empowering a Sustainable Future

At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe.

Our Sustainability report provides information on the progress we’ve made each year, across our four strategic sustainability pillars – Good Governance & Responsible Business, Empowering Safer Play (formerly responsible gameplay), Operational Sustainability & Climate, and People & Community.

You can read more about our progress here: https://www.aristocrat.com/sustainability/