LAI Games is an arcade experience company that connects people with games. Our vision is to reinvent the arcade industry by creating an arcade experience ecosystem that consists of physical arcade games and location-based VR games and experiences, and other exciting arcade-based titles. Our team members contribute across a broad range of unique and innovative projects that connect, engage, and excite players across physical and virtual worlds.

LAI games is growing, and we want to expand our support to our customers by offering remote software management of our games, and we want to provide our customers with comprehensive use-data of our games.

We want to expand our software team for this, and we’re looking for an experienced software engineering manager to realize this ambition.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, your list of responsibilities includes:

• Develop Enterprise-grade software - write efficient, maintainable, and clean code following best practices.
• Participate in architecture discussions, ensuring scalability, maintainability and performance.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on different projects, if required
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers, product managers, QAs and other engineers to deliver high-impact features
• Manage the software development lifecycle (SDLC) of system integration projects, from requirement gathering to delivery.
• Review and interpret third-party API/SDK documentation, creating POCs and reference implementations.
• Work with client-requested third-party vendors (e.g., payment gateways, POS, card reader providers) to ensure successful integration into our ecosystem.
• Review and interpret third-party API/SDK documentation, creating POCs and reference implementations.

Required Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidate would have

• Minimum of two years of professional experience as a Full Stack Engineer.
• Strong Python (Flask or FastAPI), with experience in API design.
• Working knowledge of React (or similar), HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Strong familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), including schema design, query optimization, and using an ORM.
• Independent thinker and collaborator – You are capable in working independently while being able to accept feedback and work well in a team
• Analytical problem-solving skills – possesses skills to break down problems, identify root causes and developing scalable solutions. You’re resourceful when facing unknowns.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements clearly to external developers/vendors, sometimes across language or cultural barriers.
• Experience with authentication services such as OAuth 2.0 and JWT for implementing secure and seamless user authentication.
• Skilled at writing integration guides, POCs, and technical specifications that others can follow.
• Familiarity with containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Linux development environments

Additional Attributes:

• Familiarity with hardware/software integration challenges in IoT, arcade, or embedded systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, and adaptability when facing new technologies or undocumented vendor APIs.

Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree level in Computer Science or related fields, attained either by education or by experience.

Special Requirements

• A proactive individual with a strong ability to initiate tasks and drive projects independently.
• Seeking a candidate who is articulate and possesses excellent communication skill.