Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

EAX is a team within EA that manages the majority of the web ecosystem for EA, including destinations such as Origin, EA.com, and more. EAX is looking to build a team of engineers to create services and functionality to help shape our future.

In your role as Software Engineering Manager, you will build a strong team and depending on requirements, deliver a set of varied technical capabilities that can include APIs, web applications, design systems, client applications, and publishing pipelines. This means building an awesome team, partnering with the teams and responsibilities that your teams will support, always with an eye on how to achieve the best quality capabilities and services that our players can rely on.

Joining EAX means joining the team shaping EA’s subscription services now spanning three major platforms; building consumer experiences that power EA’s games and promoting more personalized, socially connected, and frictionless experiences. We’re looking to expand our platforms across web, PC, mobile, the cloud and beyond so our players can get into the games they want to play and stay connected while playing. We like to say that “we see farther”, and are committed to driving innovation to meet player needs today and in the future.

You’re someone with a proven track record for:

Leading and motivating distributed engineering teams, with an understanding of operational considerations for shipping product to tens or hundreds of millions of users, including live service support considerations
Maintaining calm. You know how to motivate and energize your teams.
Providing live services and capabilities to both internal customers and end users.

What you will do:

Be part of a distributed scrum team conformed by multiple disciplines
Provide a unique blend of technical and people management skills to provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career guidance to a group of engineers
Coach your team and help them see and reach their potential
Work with technical directors to coordinate work and meet key performance indicators
Collaborate with external teams
Identify the technical impact of production/design decisions and surface the trade offs
Help promote and champion the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in your scrum team
Use your knowledge of software engineering concepts to design tested, reusable, and modular code
Participate in project scoping, planning and design
Work with both technical and feature product owners throughout the development process
Have passion for our customers and passion for your craft.

You bring the following skills or experiences to our team:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
Experience leading agile teams of 6+ engineers
Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning
Experience developing and supporting API services at scale
Technical and practical understanding of server-side application languages such as NodeJS or Java
Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices
Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases such as MySQL, Postgres or DynamoDB
Familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures such as ActiveMQ and Kafka
Experience with TechOps / infrastructure systems - Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins
Expertise in delivering system-level technical design and documentation

Bonus Skills:

Experience with GraphQL
Experience with Typescript
Experience using application monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic

Perks and Benefits:

Competitive salary and bonus
Comprehensive health, dental and benefit packages
Employee discounts with many local and online retailers
Free and discounted video games
Tuition reimbursement for post-secondary education
Pension with company match
Employee referral bonus program

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 maternity and paternity 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.