Electronic Arts

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. We aim 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.

We're looking for a software engineer to work on cloud web services to help us bring exciting new features to life. In this role, you will be part of a small team responsible for supporting legacy Maxis titles. You will work with an experienced team that has collectively built Maxis games for more than two decades.

You will report to a Development Director for the backend services team and your work will be in Java, Spring, Linux/Bash, and deployed to cloud platforms.

As a Backend Software Engineer at Maxis, you will

• Work with designers, client engineering, and production teams to achieve gameplay goals that are supported by the service

• Demonstrate excellent technical problem-solving skills under iteratively changing requirements during game development

• Improve server online systems to improve latency, reliability, scalability, performance, and memory.

• Work with partner teams to stand up and maintain backend infrastructure and services for the title.

Qualifications

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience

• 1+ years of Software Engineer Experience or Internship experience

• Understanding of Java Server Environment and familiarity with frameworks 

• Experience in Cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. 

• Experience developing and debugging multi-threaded/concurrent architectures.

• Experience with load testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing the performance of web services

• Willingness to be part of a live team, with rapid responses to emerging issues

Pluses

• You've built software with Java or Kotlin

• You have experience with CI/CD pipelines and terraform

• You have experience with GCP or AWS services like EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, or Route53