Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is looking for students to join our world-class internship experience. Summer 2025 will be better than ever as we bring all interns together on-site for orientation week and prep students for the future ways of work by offering remote and hybrid opportunities depending on your location. For more information about our Next-Gen Program, visit https://www.ea.com/careers/interns-and-university-graduates

We are EA

And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

This is a technical role in the Game Development Application Services team and offers the opportunity to participate in the envisioning, designing and building of a variety of enterprise-level solutions in support of Application Lifecycle Management for EA’s video games and central services teams. This role includes the creation of the solution architectures that will incorporate custom, COTS and packaged applications together with integrations with products such as Slack, JIRA, Perforce, GitLab. These solutions are built upon a cloud-first philosophy and leverage public cloud services from leading providers such as Azure, AWS and Google. Coupled with the power of the cloud, the ideal candidate will lead small agile teams to architect, design and engineer applications that will support thousands of current users.

You will have the chance to work with game teams across the entire organization, including FIFA, Madden, Battlefield and Battlefront, and central teams such as Frostbite and Origin. You should have a strong focus on innovation and leverage a deep technical background and experience.  You will contribute to the roadmap, architecture and technical and business delivery of various software applications. Strong soft skills are required to collaborate with individual game teams, in order to gain adoption and enhance these solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise-level solution ownership: 

• Contributes on all facets of a project, including gathering requirements from key technical leaders, creating a vision and strategy, presenting to leadership, developing the product roadmap, ensuring projects are on track and completed on time, managing communication with all stakeholders, and collaborating with the development team
• Participates in all aspects of a service end-to-end, including design, implementation, support, vendor relations and customer interaction
• Manages the relationship with vendors if applicable, including sourcing, evaluation, and escalation

Coding, language, architectural design, testing and support: 

• Develops solutions as part of the game development application services portfolio that are modular, portable, testable and reliable
• Understands coding best practices and standards; Participates in code reviews and provides constructive feedback on design and implementation, and integrates feedback received into future development tasks
• Participates in support and administrative actions related to the installation and maintenance of production systems, while also engineering solutions that require minimal support
• Leverages the cloud where appropriate, utilizing automation, cloud computing and configuration as code

Job qualifications and requirements

• Experience with enterprise SDLC/ALM tools, such as JIRA, Perforce/Git, and Jenkins
• Experience of working with Object Oriented Programming languages and MVC frameworks
• Experience with modern web-development standards including HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6, REST
• Experience with front-end JavaScript technologies (e.g. Angular, React/Redux, jQuery)
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, or AWS) and containerization technologies
• Experience working with .NET web development tools including .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5+, CSS3+, JavaScript, WCF, REST API, jQuery

Preferred requirements

• Good understanding of various project management models (specifically Agile)
• Experience developing automation solutions using tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terraform is an asset
• Experience with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment is an asset
• Experience in container orchestration technologies like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes is an asset
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is an asset

You must be available for a full-time paid internship in the summer of 2025

We are only considering students who will be enrolled in an accredited degree program in the summer of 2025, slated to graduate no earlier than December 2025. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada on a full time basis during the 16-week internship. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.