Job Description:
The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ engineers, product 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.
Our E-commerce group handles millions of transactions spanning the globe for the StarCraft, Diablo, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch franchises. Have you ever wondered what happens when you make a purchase in Hearthstone? Are you curious about what happens during a game launch where millions of customers unlock access to our games, features, upgrades, and flood our virtual gates? Or perhaps even how you can get virtual goodies just by watching streams? We're the group and platform that powers all those and more!
As a Software Engineer in the Shop team, you will join a team of engineering experts dedicated to building a global platform, allowing our fans worldwide to experience Activision Blizzard content. You will be an integral part of building, improving, and operating web applications and services that directly integrate with Blizzard and Activision games and working with our partner teams to deliver epic experiences to our players.
We use technologies like Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Docker, and more to provide the user-facing components and behind-the-scenes tooling of Blizzard’s e-commerce experience. Our team frequently discusses emerging tech, opportunities for improvement, and ways to do better.
Covid-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features for merchandising, purchasing, and gifting the contents of our digital product catalog, integrating with the rest of our e-commerce group and game teams
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, and numerous other partners to deliver quality products
- Learn and grow with the team, drive for and adapt to new technologies
- See projects through from requirement gathering to development, testing support, launch, and live coverage thereafter
- Improve the quality of our code and infrastructure to grow with Blizzard’s global reach
- Lend a voice in shaping our product features, collaborating not only with other engineers but designers, product managers, test analysts, and others
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Skilled with common web security practices and the reasons to use them
- Experience in client-side JavaScript in the context of both single-page applications and more traditional webpage architecture
- Experience with server-side development for public-facing web applications
- Understanding of web technology (HTTP, request/response, REST, etc.)
Pluses
- Familiarity with a modern SPA framework or library such as Angular, React, or Vue
- Experience using Docker
- Experience developing in Java or another object-oriented programming language
- Working knowledge of Spring framework
- Experience writing unit tests
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!
