EA Digital Platform (EADP)

Marketplace: Software Engineer Intern

We Are EA

And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

Save the planet from Alien Invaders. Score the winning touchdown.

Yup - It's the coolest job on the planet!

The Challenge Ahead:

Is to build our new cross-game, cross-platform digital economy platform. This large scale, always-on collection of RESTful services will power the virtual-economies of EA’s network of games that will be experienced by tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll have the opportunity to build sophisticated platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second, and driving the player engagement of many of the industries most popular titles. You'll be able to build server-side systems that deliver new functionality within the larger Digital Platform, as well as work on regular improvements to the systems to keep them at top notch performance.

What a Software Engineer Intern does within EADP Marketplace Division at EA:

As a Software Engineer Intern, your primary responsibility will be to work collaboratively with a team of engineers to plan and execute on the software design and architecture of our new systems. Most of your time will be spent developing features and optimizing performance, robustness, and scalability of server systems. You will also spend time working with product managers to innovate new features to support EA's many games and reduce technical debt associated with legacy systems through innovation and automation. Additionally, you will be a champion for best practices within the engineering team.

Responsibilities :

Roughly 70% to 85% hands on coding
Create and work on large scale distributed HTTP based backend service creating new features and updating existing ones
Resolve defects during QA testing, pre-production, production and from the live environment
Work with multiple clients working on multiple different platforms who use the services and features you create to complete user facing features
Architect and design large portions of the software from features to entire applications
Grow and guide other engineers
Occasional off-hours support for development needs and support of the live environment helping to ensure our consumer experience is always world class

Required Skills / Experience:

Currently Pursuing BS/BA in Computer Science
Experience developing object oriented software (preferably in Java/Kotlin)
Experience working on online services (via REST or gRPC) at internet consumer scale
Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems
Experience working with cloud technology and cloud provider services to build SaaS applications
Use of technologies such as memcached, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems
Superb communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
Superb ability to take high level direction and know how to execute against it
Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
Experience with unit testing (JUnit)
Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale distributed applications
Experience with source control systems

Nice to have Skills:

Experience with one or more scripting languages
Experience with load testing and system analysis
Experience with other languages such as Go, C++ or C#
Experience working with remote teams