Senior Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• 8+ years of experience with the Go language for server-side development
• Experience with the standard processes of creating professional software, including integrating with the team process, writing high quality code, reviewing code and designs
• Ability to learn new technologies, libraries, and design patterns

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will report to the Director of Engineering
• You will provide technical leadership for the back-end services team for hosting game servers worldwide-- including design services and architectural patterns; recommend best practices; review code and designs to improve the quality of our architecture and code base; coach others in these technical areas and in software development processes and best practices
• You will deliver Game Server Hosting backend features, primarily in GoLang. This includes reviewing and proposing designs, implementing the feature possibly in cooperation with others, and creating unit tests and other test automation. For larger scale efforts, you will break down the features into chunks of work that can be divided up amongst the team for parallel development
• You will proactively participate in our current Kanban process by refining tickets down into achievable sizes, executing on them, soliciting code review feedback and contributing to code reviews for others, while always striving to make our code base better than it was before
• You will be responsible for features, like enabling game servers to be run on a new hosting platform, creating a service that listens to our event bus and caches state for a responsive API or provides Slack notifications, etc
• You will proactively move high quality tickets through our process, making the work of your peers better by contributing to design and code reviews