Electronic Arts

We enable EA teams to build better games faster by building a framework around metagame systems that allows for high reusability, rapid development, and scalability. We enable best-in-class data solutions to give groups at all levels visibility and insight into games' performance and opportunities. 

To build this framework, we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join an experienced team of developers. If you have experience with building services through modern techniques connecting multiple services together we want to hear from you. You will work with multiple developers and game teams to bring complex backend solutions to life.

You are comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries.  The Full Stack Software Engineer will report to the Director of Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Work in partnership with game teams to design shared services

• Develop, launch and maintain high-traffic services for multi-platform AAA titles

• Provide support to members of the team and customers as a subject matter expert

• Lead and participate in architecture and design discussions

• Lead engineering pods to own and implement product features

• Provide mentoring to team members

• Perform service load testing to identify and resolve bottlenecks

• Establish best practices and enforce them through code reviews

• Shape the direction of the product by researching and integrating new technologies

• Be accountable for the overall health, quality, maintainability and style of the server codebase

• Analyze and interpret technical data

• Write technical documentation

Qualifications:

• A Degree in Computer Science or at least 10 years of technology industry experience

• Extensive experience with client/server architecture

• Experience with micro-service development

• Expert understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization

• Expert development experience with modern programming languages (eg, Go, Typescript)

• Experience with gRPC, Protocol buffers or FlatBuffers

• Experience with C#, C++ or Java development

• Experience with source code management (Perforce, Git)

• Effective with public Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Understanding containers, orchestrators and service mesh technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Jaeger)

• Understanding of various database and their performance characteristics (SQL and NoSQL)

• Familiarity with web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design

• Experience working with CI/CD technologies

• Passion to investigate and adopt new technologies and practices

Bonus Skills

• Experience with frameworks like React or Angular

• Experience shipping AAA games

• Experience working with PlayStation and Xbox online systems

• Experience with cloud native application development