Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• 3+ years experience developing software (preferably in Go/Kotlin/Java)
• 1+ years experience working on online services at Internet consumer scale
• Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems
• Experience working with cloud technologies to build SaaS applications
• Use of technologies such as Redis, Kafka, NoSQL systems in production systems and other OSS tech
• Superb communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
• Superb ability to take high level direction and know how to execute against it
• Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale distributed applications

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 Software Engineer II, you will report to the Sr. Engineering Manager
• 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
• Roughly 75% hands on coding
• Create and work on large scale distributed backend services creating new features and updating existing capabilities
• Resolve defects during QA testing, preproduction, production and from the live environment
• Work with multiple game studios on multiple different platforms who use the services and features you create to complete user facing features
• Architect and design large portions of the software from features to entire applications
• Grow and guide other engineers
• Occasional off-hours support for development needs and support of the live environment helping to ensure our consumer experience is always world class