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SE I- EADP Central Engineering

We Are EA

We’re EA—the world’s largest video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don’t know how we’re committed to creating games for every platform—from social to mobile to console —to give our players that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your computing genius.

Opportunity Ahead

EA’s Digital Platform (EADP) organization is responsible for driving 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 that will keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Software Engineer I position. As a Software Engineer, you will be an experienced technical member of the central engineering team to design, develop, deploy and maintain high throughput world class services at global scale for our next generation games. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and thrive in a fast paced, ever changing development environment this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do

You will be developing distributed, highly resilient, globally scalable services in the cloud by utilizing world-class engineering principles and modern DevOps best practices. Our Software Engineers love to experiment with leading edge technology, dive deep into code and work as part of a team of programming experts who define and solve complex computing problems. You must ensure stellar product quality, and provide technical inputs to Product Managers as they communicate new product features. You should have excellent design and coding skills in building APIs and have the technical depth in OS (Linux, macOS, Windows) and cloud programming models.

You will be interacting with product managers, scrum masters, architects, tech leads, quality engineers and infrastructure engineers across the US and other geographies.

  • Work with PMs, Architects, Network and Systems engineers to understand service and application needs, including build, deployment and management.
  • Work in a Agile, Scrum based on Minimum Viable Product(MVP)
  • Design and build service catalogs and APIs
  • Ensure all solutions being developed are well documented with proper technical specifications, testable and maintainable.
  • Adopt Test Driven Development focused on automation and achieve 80%+ code coverage
  • Implement logging, monitoring, analytics and telemetry in code.
  • Effectively communicate progress and issues with engineering and product/project managers.
  • Prototype new technology that fits use cases/problems and validate against success criteria.
  • Adopt clean code and clean architecture principles in software development
  • Ability to integrate research and best practices into problem avoidance and continuous improvement.
  • A problem solver and a hands-on person leading the team from the front and finding solutions using technology and logical thinking.

Must-Have Skills

  • Bachelor or Masters degree in Technology or Computer Science from Tier I institutions
  • 1+ years’ IT experience as software engineer in J2SE and J2EE development teams
  • Top notch programming skills in Java and related frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot
  • Strong Experience in REST API based Microservices development & integration that includes long running orchestration services
  • Experience implementing services with modern authentication using OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT
  • Implementation Experience in RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and good SQL query knowledge
  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra/MongoDB/Redis/DynamoDB
  • Experience or Knowledge to distributed Caching solutions such as Redis/Memcache
  • Development experience using Gitlab and JIRA.
  • CI/CD experience with Gitlab CI/CD or Jenkins or Maven
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, etc.
  • Experience working in Agile development methodologies
  • Analytical and creative problem solving skills; solution oriented individual.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to stay on top of technology, participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our products and tech stack
  • Self-starter with an eagerness to constantly learn
  • Strong sense of ownership/‘can do’ attitude and attention to detail
  • Demonstrate a high level of creativity and problem solving

Highly Desired Skills

  • Experience configuring services in AWS(preferred)
    • S3, Aurora, IAM
    • EC2, AWS Lambda, EKS
    • Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront,
    • CloudFormation templates, CloudWatch
  • Experience with Container Management preferably using EKS
  • Experience with gRPC based service development
  • DevOps experience in Test Drive Development, CI/CD
  • Experience in user interface development, and working with JavaScript UI frameworks such as JQuery, Angular, React.
  • Experience on Quality engineering tools such as Selenium, Jmeter
  • Experience working in a distributed global team

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.