Job TitleSoftware Engineer, Content & Developer Services

Requisition ID R001966

Job Description

The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ super-powered engineers, program managers, and designers focused on the technology that powers Blizzard Entertainment’s games. Whether you’re playing one of our titles, chatting with friends, or just shopping online, B&OP ensures that our players are immersed in engaging, exciting, and secure experiences.

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join the Content & Developer Services organization of Battle.net & Online Products to build engaging services and experiences for our Developer Community, Esports Partners, and Game franchises.

Our team located in Irvine, California is on the front lines creating the tools and API’s needed to extend game play experiences beyond the game and support competitive esports with rich data and statistics. Moreover we also provide services that act as the crossroads of Blizzard’s game data that fuel our Developer Community APIs.

Does working on building this new future excite you? If yes, venture forth...

This position within the Blizzard Content & Developer Services Department will work closely with a team of engineers, designers and testers to help extend the capabilities of our Platform, with an ongoing focus on expanding integrations with additional game data sources.

This is an individual contributor role joining an existing team responsible for architecting, building and maintaining scalable web services & tools to serve a global audience of community API developers, esports fans, players and partners.

Responsibilities

Working within a cross-functional team whose purpose is to enable epic web & broadcast experiences and compelling storytelling around esports for all Blizzard’s franchises
Defining data architecture and integrating new data sources, APIs and systems
Writing business logic and API’s that allow our clients to aggregate data into useful segments from raw stats
Breaking down complicated requirements into clear, actionable tasks that can be estimated and completed
Writing clean, testable, maintainable code
Work with our game teams to pipe data into our systems for authorized consumption by downstream consumers
Maintaining an open-minded, friendly and positive attitude

Requirements

A minimum of 3 years’ experience in professional web development
Expertise in back-end web development, ideally building web services and APIs
A solid understanding of best practices and techniques regarding web scalability, performance and security
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Self-motivated with strong initiative
Able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
Passion and belief in Blizzard’s Core Values

Pluses

Passion and interest in game data, esports, and public APIs
Knowledge of common competitive formats in esports and traditional sports
Experience using Java / Spring / Hibernate
Experience using JavaScript / Typescript / React / Node.js
Experience using SQL / NoSQL(Cassandra)
Experience working in a Scrum environment
Experience working on high-traffic, responsive websites and applications

Team Name

Battle.net & Online Products