CrowdStar is a Glu Mobile studio and now part of the Electronic Arts family. The combination of our talented teams at Glu and EA position us as a leader in the largest gaming category in the world. We are forming a powerful growth engine that will expand our current games and deliver more amazing new experiences across sports, lifestyle, mid-core, and casual for players everywhere. Come join us!
Role Description
As Lead Engineer you will report into the Engineering Manager. You will design and develop the backend services that support our games in partnership with the client team. You will be the decision maker on technical choices and guide the server development team to deliver high-quality technical solutions. You will assist with planning, costing and allocation of resources. You will interact with multiple stakeholders to ensure the execution of our roadmap and product requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of the backend team
- Coordinate development efforts with the client team
- Maintain existing service and make suggestion for engineering driven development opportunities
- Identify, drive and coordinate codebase improvements
- Plan against and pivot the team for new challenges that arise during development
- Ensure performance and scalability of services
- Work with producers to drive sprint planning and task estimation
- Mentoring and work with engineers, including helping them solve coding problems
- Auditing the technical quality of emerging technologies and integrations
- Drive the team to successful launches and ongoing support of service
- Identify, design and build tools for the various team to increase productivity
- Stays up to date with modern backend technologies, and communicates that to the team
- Encourages knowledge sharing with other teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional development experience building backend services, having shipped at least one mobile title with live service
- BS/MS Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
- Excellent working knowledge of OOP, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures
- Expertise in multiple server-side languages (e.g. PHP, Python, Java/Kotlin)
- Expertise with relational databases (e.g. MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, Couchbase) and caching technologies (e.g. Redis)
- Expertise with modern cloud architecture (e.g. AWS)
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring, Profiling, and
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent teamwork and problem-solving skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
Nice-to-haves
- Expert knowledge of PHP and experience with PHP frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel/Lumen)
- Expert knowledge of a JVM based language (e.g. Java or Kotlin)
- Developed back-end services for mobile apps that have millions of daily users
- Experience working with team members across different time zones, and of different backgrounds and cultures
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.
