Empowering players to create is an exciting future for the gaming industry. At Electronic Arts we have many examples of players creating content, whether it be a skateboard park in Skate or fantastical mansions in the Sims 4. The future definitely has our players being more empowered to create with their imagination being the only limit.
To enable more players to become creators, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that will shape the technology that powers creation. If you have experience with building services for user generated content through modern techniques connecting multiple services together we want to hear from you.
You will work with an experienced team that has collectively built and worked on games and backend services for more than two decades. You will work with multiple developers to bring the next game services to life.
We strive to stay relevant and innovate in our development approaches as well as with our services. Many of our software engineers are “polyglots” and strive in multiple environments.
Responsibilities
- Building innovative web projects leveraging modern web development best practices
- Focusing on quality and maintainability
- Implementing features to specifications while working collaboratively with a small team of software engineers
- Work with stakeholders across different teams to determine feature specifications
- Build secure systems for high performance and high scalability
- Monitor, analyze and collect data about system performance
- Work with the engineering and DevOps teams to build web services
- Research and integrate new technologies
- Be accountable for the overall health, quality, maintainability and style of the codebase
Qualifications
- Computer Science degree or other relevant experience
- Understanding of how browsers and DOM work
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, CSS and HTML
- Experience designing and interacting with RESTful web services
- Experience in one or two frontend Frameworks (such as React, VUE, Angular) and UI frameworks (Material, Bootstrap, Foundation, etc)
- Development experience with a backend technology in either Java, C#, .NET, Go, Node.js
- Database design and development experience with SQL or NoSQL technologies
- Appreciation for UI/UX, software craftsmanship, architecture and design patterns for writing flexible, robust and testable code
- Experience with client/server architecture
- Experience with source code management (Perforce, Git)
- Experience with Linux environments
- Experience writing unit tests
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Passion to investigate and adopt new technologies and practices
- Good communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Have fun!
Bonus Skills
- Experience with and/or exposure to microservices
- Knowledge Graph QL
- Familiarity with public Cloud providers (AWS, GCE, Azure)
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, Rancher)
- Understanding of orchestrators and service mesh technologies (Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Jeager)
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
