Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

We are EA

Electronic Arts is more than you’ve ever realized. We’re more than a company, or a headline, or even a clever catchphrase – we’re a vibrant community of over 9,800 artists, storytellers, technologists and innovators working toward a shared vision: to inspire and unite through play.

This is an especially great time for the video game industry, as we’re currently going through an exciting digital transformation. The global gaming audience has also never been bigger, with industry revenue projected to reach $295.6 billion by 2026.

The Challenge Ahead:

EA’s Digital Platform (EADP) organization is responsible for driving critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global basis, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is critical to making the industry’s best games and services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform infrastructure that will keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.

Software Engineer – I, Player & Developer Experience (PDE) – EA Digital Platform (EADP)

• Provide technical leadership and be part of the technology team that designs and develops the application platforms and tools which provides best player and developer experience.
• Own the core system quality attributes relating to product architecture, such as performance, scalability, security, availability, reliability etc.
• Collaborate with Product management and game teams to understand the requirements which will enhance the capabilities of the system.
• Drive brainstorming on the new products, tools and services required by EADP internal teams & Game Teams.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company products.
• Works as an Individual contributor (IC) and mentors the junior engineers technically and groom them to become experts in the technical area.
• Hands-on in Coding and Testing and Deployment in large-scale environments.
• Hands-on experience with building world-class applications, especially in a distributed system.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop the application features considering the functionality, Performance, extensibility, Scalability, Reliability, Consistency, Observability, Usability, Testability, Completeness, maintainability and Security aspects
• Review and validate feature requirements. Monitor or assess the performance budgets for the features allocated
• Write good suite of unit tests. Focuses on preventing the introduction of defects during the software development process rather than finding defects after testing begins
• Analyze and troubleshoot issues
• Apply best software development practices
• Able to work in a variety of technologies like Java, Python, Flink, Kafka, Redis, Grpc, Spring, Node.js, Couchbase, Mysql, Postgres, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, Docker, AWS etc.
• Collaboration with global teams to track and resolve issues
• Prompt and high quality customer support on the queries/issues
• Communicate the updates to the partners/stake holders
• Communicate your ideas effectively to others within your team.
• Write good user documents and design documents
• Active participation in Sprint planning and task estimates
• Learn and Support your team growth through active participation in code and design reviews
• Continuous learning to efficiently solve new challenges and improve the system performance and robustness
• Harmonize discordant views, find the best way forward and convince your team. Demonstrates resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact.
• Deliver high quality software & products with a Continuous Integration, Validation and Deployment methodology.
• Extensively use open source products/tools and develop the systems for easy maintenance of code and deliver in smaller cycle time.

The next great EA Software Engineer – I also needs:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or higher
• 1-3 years of relative experience
• Must have experience building applications in a fast paced agile environment.
• knowledge of building high performance, highly available, reliable, distributed systems software.
• A strong background in Data Structures, Algorithms, Design patterns, analysis of algorithm complexity and efficient implementation of complex algorithms
• Experience with software development tools such as source control systems, automated build systems, software validation systems, test harnesses, continuous integration & deployment.
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, etc. is a definite plus.
• Experience in big data systems will be an advantage
• Comes from a product development background.
• Ability to work in an environment with high degree of ambiguity (previous start-up like experience could be helpful)
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) – able to communicate effectively with all levels of management as well as a geographically and culturally diverse technical organization.

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