Electronic Arts

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of The Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be.

Location: Vancouver, BC Canada.

As a Web Software Engineer with Maxis, you will build web application powered dynamic in-game content and provide tools for administration and community management.

You will work with an experienced team that has collectively built Maxis games for more than two decades. You will work with multiple artists, designers, producers, and both client and backend engineers, prototyping and shipping features that promote richer, more dynamic content for new Maxis titles and that help the next generation of content creation, administration, and community management tools for many of EA games. You will report to a Development Director and the bulk of your work will be done in TypeScript using the React and Electron frameworks.

As a Web Application Software Engineer at Maxis, you will

• Develop responsive and performant user interfaces built on the latest web tech that will be seen by, or support content for, millions of players
• Work with artists and designers to build components and styles consistent with the game's look and feel and that are suitable for console, desktop, and mobile devices
• Build out software that supports customer experience teams for multiple games, allowing administration and community management features, including moderation for a large volume of user-generated content
• Define coding conventions, project structures, and build processes for web tech projects
• Select technologies and tooling that are up to date with the latest developments in web tech and that support clean, performant code
• Integrate with both internal and external backend services, iterating collaboratively with backend engineers
• Author and review technical design documents and specifications detailing software requirements
• Maintain a suite of automated tests that validate the correctness of both logic and presentation code

Qualifications

• Professional experience with projects implemented in /experience with NodeJS, React and TypeScript
• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• 5+ years of professional experience in a hands-on development role
• Demonstrate past experiences product and design lifecycles, and collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers
• You have experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners both in writing & verbally
• Author and review technical design documents and specifications detailing software requirements
• Experience with web performance and monitoring, including load time and run time optimizations
• You able to operate autonomously
• You have a desire to teach and learn from your peers

Pluses

1. Experience with web adjacent technologies such as Electron & Node
2. Experience with cross-platform desktop application development and platform-specific optimizations (Windows, macOS, Linux)
3. Hands-on experience with one or more strongly typed languages such as Java, Kotlin, or C#
4. Exposure to 3D rendering frameworks (e.g, Three.js)
5. Experience with CI/CD pipelines
6. Experience working in large data-driven games or applications
7. You've used A/B testing and metrics for UX insights
8. You've used modern JavaScript tooling and IDEs to improve developer workflows
9. You've worked on large teams using version control tools like Perforce
10. You have experience working on large data-driven projects