Electronic Arts

At Electronic Arts, we connect millions of players worldwide with some of the greatest games. The EAX team leads important projects to link players with each other and the games they love. These projects include the EA app, EA Play, our cross-platform subscription service, and different consumer experiences and e-commerce solutions that connect players across platforms.

In your role as a Backend Software Engineer, you will work with a team to build backend APIs to support teams within EAX. You will collaborate across departments (Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management) and other internal customers to align and implement. You will also be a regular consumer of data to analyze performance of our live service products and collaborate with our senior engineers to identify live service opportunities to create richer player experiences. You will report to the Associate Technical Director as a core contributor to the EAX team, based in EA Vancouver, with a hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Build testable modular backend components / features and debug live issues.

• Collaborate with other developers to promote the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in the team.

• Collaborate across departments ( Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management ) and other internal customers to align and implement.

• Learn new technologies and apply new techniques to improve existing solutions.

• On-call responsibilities (such as reacting to pages and evaluating live issues)

Qualifications:

Bonus:

• Familiarity with Event-driven Systems.

• Familiarity working with a content management system such as Contentful.