Electronic Arts - Backend Software Engineer

Please note that you do not need to satisfy all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable having an open conversation about your qualifications.

• You have a Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of job experience in a hands-on coding role
• You've shipped and supported scalable cloud-hosted web services
• You’ve owned large features from design to deployment, including live service support
• You’ve developed high-quality, testable software
• You have a desire to work with client engineers and designers to iteratively add features and improve APIs
• You’ve developed product APIs that release new updates with zero downtime strategies and tools
• You have experience with load testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance of web services
• You've developed and optimized queries and database access patterns for object and relational databases

Bonus

• You've deployed and shipped cloud-hosted data-driven web services that scale to millions of daily users using Kubernetes and containerization, especially for mobile games
• You've built software with Typescript and shipped services using Node.js
• You've worked on large teams using version control tools like git
• You have experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Google Kubernetes Engine, or Google Cloud Spanner
• You have experience with distributed streaming technologies like Kafka
• You’re familiar with pub/sub and distributed caching like Redis
• You have React programming experience

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

You'll be developing a new mobile title for EA. As a studio, we build games for Imaginative Creators which allow players to create something that is an expression of their unique personality.

You'll be reporting into the New Game’s Server Technical Director and collaborating with designers, producers, and client engineers from prototyping through to live operations for important game backend features.

Responsibilities

• Develop responsive, resilient, massively scalable, and globally available web services that support millions of players
• Creatively blend security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
• Apply and improve service deployment and troubleshooting strategies that maximize uptime
• Design and implement APIs and protocols that are consistent, formalized, and testable
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills under iteratively changing requirements
• Author and review technical design documents and API specifications detailing software requirements
• Maintain an automated test suite to validate backend service correctness