The Leisure & Allied Industries (LAI) group was founded in Perth, Australia in 1958 by Malcolm Steinberg, The LAI group was an early pioneer of the Family Entertainment Center concept, founding the Timezone brand of FEC’s in 1978. Timezone continues to operate today, independently managed it is the leading FEC operator in Australasian region with over 230 operating entertainment facilities. LAI Games was born during the growth of Australia’s amusement industry and has been producing arcade and amusement games for over 50 years. The company develops, manufactures, and sells coin and card operated prize merchandising games, ticket redemption games, photo booths, kiddie rides, and video and novelty games. LAI Games is a leading developer and manufacturer of arcade games and products with a portfolio comprised of video games, Virtual Reality experiences, mobile applications, ticket redemption games, and more.

Our goal is to craft the most engaging, rewarding and innovative games and experiences in the out of home entertainment space, including arcades, barcades, bowling alleys and family entertainment centres. This commitment to innovation is demonstrated by the consistent launch of category-defining, award-winning titles such as Speed of Light, Snapshot, Let’s Bounce, HYPERshoot, and Virtual Rabbids: The Big Ride.

Rapid prototyping, evaluation and iteration are the core elements of our development processes, and we are looking for fun, energetic, and talented people who share our passion for innovative games and products that enrich the out of home entertainment experiences for millions of players around the world. Our arcade games are large, dynamic, physical products that leverage a wide variety of technologies, interfaces and formats to deliver unique and engaging user experiences. Developing these games requires a high level of collaboration within a development team consisting of a range of disciplines including mechanical, electrical and software engineers, game developers, artists, designers and fabricators. As such, our work environment rewards people who are curious, collaborative, and productive, embracing the responsibility that comes with freedom from micro-management, and striving for excellence in everything they do. If this sounds like you, apply to join our fun, dynamic development team!

Taking pride in maintaining the best and most reliable build processes, server configurations and development workflows, our Game Engineers don’t just help to remove technical roadblocks when they arrive, they foresee them and prevent them from ever occurring.  They are passionate about technology, up to date with the latest developments in the industry, and use this knowledge on a day to day basis to ensure that our games are always cutting edge.  Game programmers at heart, our Game Engineers take a step back and analyse our projects as a whole, designing, implementing and monitoring the architecture that allows our team to efficiently craft some of the most innovative, engaging and rewarding games and experiences in our industry. What you'll be spearheading: • Design and develop elegant solutions for a diverse range of complex problems to empower our teams to create games that are both technically and creatively innovative. • Work closely with artists, designers, QA and engineers across all projects to discover opportunities where software can improve our workflows and infrastructure. • Collaborate with programmers, artists and designers to create tools, asset pipelines, workflow processes and cloud solutions that are reliable, efficient and easy to use. • Design and develop game software with a high standard of code quality, stability, maintainability, readability and performance. • Provide expert advise regard the best operating systems, hardware platforms, game engines and techniques for implementing games, features and tools. • Diagnose and resolve issues with current and past projects, and test to ensure stability. • Contribute to the design of new product ideas and features. • Rapidly prototype and iterate on new game ideas to evaluate their fun, feasibility and market fit You're the one for us if you have: • High standards of code quality, usability and maintainability. • Expert experience developing PC games with Unity3D and C# • Experience with REST APIs and cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, etc). • Strong knowledge of bench-marking, optimisation and PC hardware performance. • Able to thrive in a diverse, collaborative team working productively and autonomously. • Strong experience with common gameplay features such as physics, animation, user interfaces, state machines, networking, etc. • Experience writing other software such as C++ DLLs, APIs, servers, windows services, console programs, Powershell/batch scripts, or websites. • Experience working in teams with version control systems such as Git, Mercurial or Perforce. • Experience with a variety of software development tools and practices such as unit testing, build automation, dependency injection, data-driven development, etc. • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal. • A passion for games is critical as you’ll be collaborating with the games development team and contributing to LAI Games products. It's great if you have: • Experience with iOS, Android and web development, and any other programming languages • Experience developing for VR Qualities we seek: • Tertiary degree in a relevant technical field, or equivalent experience. • 5+ years experience in design and development of games. If this sounds like you, click 'Want to Visit' to introduce yourself to our team :) Make sure to upload your resume and portfolio, and share links to your work on your profile!