This job listing expired on Oct 2, 2024
Tweet

Introduction to EA & India Centre: Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices, and the Internet.

You will report to Director, Software Engineering.

Opportunity Ahead

EA’s Digital Platform (EADP) organisation drives critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global scale, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is critical to making the industry’s best games & services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform services to keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Sr. Software Engineer I position. As a Sr. Software Engineer I, you will be a senior technical member of the central engineering team to design high throughput world class services at global scale for our next-generation games. EA’s network of games caters to tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and driving the player engagement of many of the industry’s most popular titles. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and excel this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do

  • You will Architect, develop massively scalable services, solutions, platforms & UI components with stellar performance.

  • Provide technology roadmap & direction for platforms, products, and features.

  • Improve for simplicity and low maintenance

  • Collaborate with distributed teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players

  • Improve technical excellence amongst team members by mentoring

  • Lead and support companywide technology initiatives in partnership with other architects

  • Provide accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same

  • Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development

  • Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning.

  • Review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards

  • Institutionalize & promote engineering best practices across teams.

  • Identify the right choice of tools for solving the problem to minimize time, money and maximise efficiency.

  • The last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues

Must have Skills

  • Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute

  • 12+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 8+ years of experience in building scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.

  • Command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka etc.), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building distributed systems on the cloud.

  • Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying high-volume, high transaction-based, distributed and highly available web applications.

  • Hands-on experience in building rich UI applications using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks and libraries (such as React, Angular), HTML and CSS.

  • Hands on experience using UI tools & testing frameworks

  • Demonstrated ability to architect distributed services on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards.

  • Strong Understand of microservices & event-driven patterns

  • Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns and design principles

  • Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as RDS, Elasticsearch and Cassandra

  • Experience Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.

  • Experience DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes

Desired Skills

  • Experience with EKS, Terraform, Helm

  • Experience in Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift.

  • Experience in building & deploying web applications using service mesh (Istio) using mesh features.

  • Experience in Streaming processing technologies – Kafka Streams, Flink

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.