Senior Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• 9+ years of experience developing object-oriented software
• Demonstrated ability in Java/Kafka/Golang
• 6+ years of experience working on online services (HTTP via REST) at Internet consumer scale
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience
• Expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end storage systems and all points in between
• Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
• Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems (hundreds of thousands requests per second)
• Experience with technologies such as memcache, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems and other OSS tech

Desirable

• The Challenge Ahead includes building our new cross-game, cross-platform digital economy platform
• This large-scale, always-on collection of Java/Kotlin and GO-based services will power the virtual-economies of EA’s network of games, experienced by tens of millions of monthly active users
• You will build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second, driving the player engagement of many of the industry's most popular titles
• You will build server-side systems that deliver new functionality within the larger Digital Platform and work on regular improvements to the systems to keep them at top-notch performance
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will report to the Director of Engineering
• You will lead the software design and architecture process of our services, while optimizing performance and scalability
• You will work with product managers to develop new features, supporting EA's many games and reducing technical debt associated with legacy systems through innovation and automation
• You will lead the technical design and architecture of major components in our large-scale distributed backend service, creating new features and updating existing ones
• You will work with customers and business leaders to understand customer needs and delivering incrementally on their highest priority features and requirements
• You will spend 40%-60% of your time hands-on coding
• You will provide occasional off-hours support for development needs and the live environment