Electronic Arts

As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity.

With more opportunity than ever to design, innovate and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, we invite you to join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom.

The Server Software Engineer will be a part of the game creation process, including architectural design, implementation, and debugging on multiple platforms—working on complex problems with Designers, Artists and other Engineers in domains including rendering, gameplay, audio, user interface, online, physics, databases and tools. You will report to the Operations Development Director and Technical Lead to estimate, build projects and provide excellent results.

This is a temporary full-time - 12-months opportunity. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Mix of hands-on coding and release management for large Java projects, using SQL databases.

• Create and work on large-scale distributed HTTP-based backend services creating new features and updating existing ones.

• Resolve defects during QA testing, pre production, production and from the live environment.

Your Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience developing software in Java.

• 1+ years of experience working on online services/servers (HTTP via REST).

• Working knowledge of the HTTP protocol.

• Working knowledge of SQL (MYSQL preferred).

• Experience with unit testing (JUnit).

• Experience with IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse.