Senior Software Engineer, PlayStation

• The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies
• Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience or equivalent knowledge
• 5+ years of solid programming experience in end-to-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React and React Native
• Expert level knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
• Collaborated on cloud-deployed services hosting APIs and backend processes talking to data storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services
• Strong understanding of engineering best practices – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, partake in code reviews and documentation; experience with open source-based technology stack
• Ability to oversee periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests

Desirable

• The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across a set of client applications
• Architect and develop complex projects across multiple teams and fields to deliver new and innovative features
• Develop and maintain high quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards
• Extremely proactive and independent, communicating with all relevant stakeholders on plans, schedules, and deliverables
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, and Designers to understand feature requirements, define technical requirements, and develop new features
• Will have ownership of technology, common shareable features across a large project or on several small projects
• Produce excellent, thorough design, architecture, and development documentation
• Focus on quality and strive to improve processes, propose standard methodologies, and drive their usage within the teams
• Partner with QA engineers to ensure test coverage and verify test plans that help deliver high quality features
• Write unit tests and component tests for features with key characteristics of stability and maintainability that prevent regressions in the product code
• Efficiently debug issues raised by internal and external users and work with the team to provide resolutions to these issues
• Support and mentor other team members and provide technical leadership by reviewing pull requests, design plans, and participate in architectural discussions
• Communicate on development strategy, technical subjects related to software development frameworks and collaborate effectively with the globally distributed teams to achieve business goals
• Ability to understand, discuss and improve specifications to enhance the overall experience for players and game studio partners