Backend Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• You have a Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of job experience in a hands-on coding role
• You've shipped and supported scalable cloud-hosted web services
• You’ve owned large features from design to deployment, including live service support
• You’ve developed high-quality, testable software
• You have a desire to work with client engineers and designers to iteratively add features and improve APIs
• You’ve developed product APIs that release new updates with zero downtime strategies and tools
• You have experience with load testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance of web services
• You've developed and optimized queries and database access patterns for object and relational databases

Desirable

• You'll be developing a new mobile title for EA. As a studio, we build games for Imaginative Creators which allow players to create something that is an expression of their unique personality
• You'll be reporting into the New Game’s Server Technical Director and collaborating with designers, producers, and client engineers from prototyping through to live operations for important game backend features
• Develop responsive, resilient, massively scalable, and globally available web services that support millions of players
• Creatively blend security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
• Apply and improve service deployment and troubleshooting strategies that maximize uptime
• Design and implement APIs and protocols that are consistent, formalized, and testable
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills under iteratively changing requirements
• Author and review technical design documents and API specifications detailing software requirements
• Maintain an automated test suite to validate backend service correctness