Electronic Arts

The EA Digital Platform (EADP) group is the core powering the global EA ecosystem. We provide the foundation for all of EA’s incredible games and player experiences with high-level platforms like Cloud, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity and Social. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate into their work, we let them focus on making some of the best games in the world and creating meaningful relationships with our players. We’re behind the curtain, making it all work together. Come power the future of play with us.

The Challenge Ahead

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in the Integrated Content team, at the center of EA's User-Generated Experiences (UGX) technology and will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.

This role may be hybrid or remote, based in any of the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, or Ontario.

Responsibilities

• You will develop dynamic, responsive, and resilient systems.
• You will design and implement search capabilities such as Suggesters, Tokenizers and full-text search, including Fuzzy search, faceted search and hybrid search.
• You will tune and optimize for search relevancy, including the use of ML model implementation.
• You will design, implement and maintain complex systems and features end-to-end.
• You will implement security best practices including authentication, authorization and access control for search platforms.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience programming back-end services
• Experience with Scala and Java
• Experience delivering and managing high traffic, high performance services
• Expertise in Search Platform technologies including OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
• Experience designing and optimizing search queries (ElasticSearch DSL, Lucene) and the usage of Search Templates.
• Experience with indexing strategies, search ranking and relevancy tuning.
• Exposure to a variety of programming paradigms, including both imperative and functional programming languages
• Experience deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure on AWS (e.g. EKS, OpenSearch, Terraform), or other cloud providers.
• Experience building CI/CD Pipelines

Bonus:

• Experience working with Flink or similar streaming platform
• Experience with Kotlin or Clojure