Senior Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• You are an experienced backend service software engineer with more than 8+ years of experience writing software of varying complexities, having specialized in at least two programming languages such Typescript or Java
• You are a backend service software developer first that also works with UI
• You have developed products that are in production and are used by customers
• Your familiar technologies include Spring Boot, React, Redis, various databases, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
• You find it normal to learn new programming languages and are open to new technologies
• Debugging is second nature to you and you are successful at it, even when in new or unfamiliar territory, you're able to critically think through the problem
• You understand that leadership skills are important principles that complement your strong software engineering abilities
• You are a software developer having built backend java and/or node applications and understand performance, security, caching, permissions, Kubernetes, metrics, builds and pipelines and more
• Front end JavaScript, React UI based applications are also in your portfolio of completed software projects
• You understand the importance of customer experiences and how we write our code can affect that

Desirable

• EA’s Digital Platform’s Customer and Platform Enablement Team builds a variety of software products from full-stack UI administration tools to backend services that require 10’s of thousands of requests per second throughput, are secure and cost effective
• We coordinate with multiple internal teams, working together to build products used by game teams. Our products require solutions that are customer focused and easy to integrate with solving the needs of game teams building amazing games
• Our senior software engineers are technical leaders in these spaces, are open minded problem solvers and force multipliers to the people around them
• Your day-to-day is a healthy mix of hands-on software development, problem solving, working with customers and assisting junior team members. Your people-first approach to being a senior engineer means you can coach and guide as lead by example with your exemplary coding and debugging skills. The team is cross-disciplined software engineers who are distributed across Canada and the US
• Live 24x7 services means on-call is a part of the responsibilities with deployments bringing new features directly to your customers. You understand that our work isn’t done until it is in customers hands, so being an example of high quality software and related processes is key. Debugging is second nature and you find hard problems challenging, remaining calm and collective when under pressure of debugging a live issue that may be impacting the player
• You are a partner to the engineer lead on technical needs and team needs including areas such as project scoping, design and working with the engineer team. Accountability to technical solutions is important and you enjoy building and creating software applications that meet the needs of the business and the customers effectively and efficiently
• This role is a tactical partnership with the Engineering Manager whom you would report to. You work together to move the product forward, ensure technical needs are met, blockers are resolved and foster a team of software engineers to build quality features into our products. Products which require full stack software engineering skills from frontend to backend and more