Electronic Arts

The future of entertainment is interactive, and our Ventures Group plays an important role in this future by building content, culture, and community that take us Beyond Gaming. We empower audiences to Play, Create, Watch, and Connect across our amazing franchises and experiences, including The Sims, Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, Apex Legends, and Battlefield. We’re a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise in building fandom, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the centre of the broader entertainment ecosystem.

We are seeking a Director of Backend Engineering to lead and scale our backend systems powering next-generation social and gaming experiences. You will bring deep expertise in high-performance, cloud-native services and lead a talented engineering team in delivering resilient, scalable platforms that support rapid innovation and global reach.

This is a hybrid based role, working 3 days in our Southam office.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the technical direction and architecture of backend systems supporting live services and social experiences.

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of backend engineers, promoting technical excellence and growth.

• Drive engineering execution and prioritise scalable, secure, and performant system design.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver end-to-end features.

• Make architectural decisions across technologies including C#, Kubernetes, AWS, SQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

• Support our DevOps team with defining best practices and the overseeing of CI/CD pipelines as well as observability tools for backend operations.

• Foster a strong culture of agile development, code quality, and continuous improvement.

How Your Success Will Be Measured:

• System performance, uptime, and scalability across live production environments.

• Velocity and quality of backend feature delivery in alignment with product roadmaps.

• Engineering team health, retention, and technical development.

• Ability to support rapid iteration without compromising backend reliability or security.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in backend systems development, ideally with large-scale, cloud-based platforms.

• 5+ years in technical leadership roles, including managing backend-focused engineering teams.

• Deep knowledge of C#/.NET, Kubernetes orchestration, and AWS services.

• Strong experience with data storage technologies including relational (SQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.

• Experience with C++ is considered beneficial.

• Proven ability to balance fast feature delivery with building for long-term scalability and maintainability.

• Skilled in CI/CD, automated testing, service monitoring, and incident response.

• Familiarity with modern dev practices including trunk-based development and microservices architecture.

• Experience with Microsoft's Orleans framework is a bonus.

Soft Skills & Values:

• Collaborative leader with a passion for building innovative, high-impact products.

• Excellent communicator able to translate complex technical concepts into clear direction.

• Committed to building inclusive, high-performance teams that thrive on trust and autonomy.