Electronic Arts

Senior Multiplayer & Online Engineer - This person will actively work with Tech Directors, software engineers & EA backend partner teams to architect and drive implementation of cross-platform synchronous co-op gameplay and online features of a game being developed using the Unity game engine. Most of the work will be in C# in the Unity engine & some work is expected to be in Java/Kotlin for integration & customization of backend systems & services necessary for the game. 

Role Expectations:

Drive the delivery of the following:

• Work with the development team to align on architecture and backend service requirements.

• Prototype integration of client game code with backend services to evaluate choices and recommend and drive implementation of production quality integration of appropriate services.

• Review time estimates from the development team and/or provide time estimates for tasks.

• Architect & work with the development team to implement gameplay subsystems for cross-platform co-op game play, chat and integrate with backend services for telemetry, authentication, commerce, cloud saves, downloadable content delivery, and server driven live events.

• Provide technical guidance to internal and external engineers.

• Optimize network and online performance & hosting costs to meet AAA quality standards and the game’s business needs. 

• Partner with the game’s leadership to prioritize and execute on tech goals and milestones, establish best practices, and promote the core development values.

• Work with Production, Development Directors, external partners, and other disciplines leads to scope tasks and input requirements.

• Document components & services.

• Learn new technologies needed to complete the tasks.

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience shipping high quality games on PC and/or Gen 4/5 consoles.

• Strong working knowledge of modern C# & C++.

• Console (Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft) development experience required.

• Experience shipping multiple games with the Unity engine is required.

• Strong working knowledge of network programming & integrating game client code with online services required.

• Experience working on & shipping multiplayer games is required.

• Experience optimizing games for networked gameplay performance is a plus.

• Experience working with backend services, server side programming languages (Java/Kotlin/Typescript) is a plus.

• Skills debugging complex applications.

• Ability to prototype systems and applications rapidly.

• Ability to review code, documentation & document architecture.