EA's Digital Platform (EADP) organisation drives important technology decisions and investments for EA on a global scale, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is important 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 Software Engineer I position. As a Software Engineer, you will be an experienced technical member of the central engineering team to design high throughput outstanding services at global scale for our next-generation games. 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 develop distributed, resilient, globally scalable services in the cloud by using outstanding engineering principles and modern DevOps best practices. Our Software Engineers love to experiment with creative technology, dive deep into code and work as part of a team of programming experts who solve complex computing problems. You must ensure stellar product quality, and provide technical inputs to Product Managers as they communicate new product features. You have excellent design and coding skills in building APIs and have the technical depth in OS (, macOS, Windows) and cloud programming models.

You will work 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)
Develop service catalogues and APIs
You will 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.
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.
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 databases such as Cassandra//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.
Experience working in Agile development methodologies
Stay on top of technology, participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our products and tech stack
With an eagerness to constantly learn
Strong sense of ownership/'can do' attitude
Demonstrate a high level of creativity

Highly Desired Skills

Experience configuring services in AWS(preferred)
S3, Aurora, IAM
EC2, AWS Lambda, EKS
Route 53, API Gateway, Cloud Front,
Cloud Formation templates, Cloud Watch
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 J Query, Angular, React.
Experience on Quality engineering tools such as Selenium, J meter
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.