Job Description
Could this be one of those rare moments to do the best work of your career?
The Lottery Corporation is Australia’s largest lottery company offering exciting games that deliver life-changing wins to customers and make a meaningful difference in the community.
We’re the team who bring you Australia's favourite lottery and Keno games. For more than a century, we’ve been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community.
Share joy, spark possibilities and join the winning team today!
At The Lottery Corporation, our Lotteries Technology team powers the systems at the heart of our business. We enable every lottery product, transaction and customer experience across Australia.
As a Software Engineering Lead, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering the Core Gaming System. You’ll balance hands-on development with people leadership to ensure high-quality, reliable and scalable systems that operate at the centre of our business.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design and delivery of core, transaction-critical systems
- Contribute directly to the codebase while guiding engineering outcomes
- Drive engineering standards, patterns and quality across the team
- Manage and develop a team of engineers, supporting performance and growth
- Act as the escalation point for complex, high-impact technical challenges
- Ensure systems meet strict requirements for reliability, security and compliance
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Balance delivery speed with risk, system integrity and operational stability
What you’ll bring
- Strong hands-on experience in C++ development and Microsoft SQL Server
- Proven track record delivering high-reliability, transaction-intensive systems
- Deep understanding of data integrity, consistency and fault tolerance
- Experience leading engineers around performance, coaching and capability uplift
- Expertise in modern engineering practices (automation, CI/CD, observability)
- Strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement capability
- Experience in regulated or complex environments (highly regarded)
What you’ll get
Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you’ll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it’s like to be part of our team.
The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:
- Balance work and life with our ‘flex for great outcomes’ approach – hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.
- Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
- Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
- We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here!
- A true sense of belonging. We’re committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affirmation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
- Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.
If this role is of interest to you and you’re ready to spark possibilities with The Lottery Corporation, but don’t feel that your experience aligns 100%, we would still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
We’re committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.
We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present.
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