Senior Audio Software Engineer

Job Description

Sr. Architect - EADP Central Engineering

We Are EA

We're EA-the world's largest video game publisher. You're probably familiar with many of our titles-Madden, FIFA, Apex Legends, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don't know how we're committed to creating games for every platform-from social to mobile to console -to give our players that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your computing genius.
Opportunity Ahead

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

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Sr. Architect position. As a Sr. Architect, you will be a senior technical member of the central engineering team to design, develop, deploy and maintain high throughput world class services at global scale for our next generation games. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and thrive in a fast paced, ever changing development environment this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do
• Architect, design & build massively scalable services, solutions and platforms with stellar performance
• Provide technology roadmap & direction for platforms, products and features
• Innovate for simplicity and low maintenance
• Collaborate with distributed cross functional teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players
• Drive technical excellence amongst team members by coaching and mentoring
• Lead and deliver on company wide technology initiatives in partnership with other architects
• Provide accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same
• Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development
• Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning, etc.
• Review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards
• Institutionalise best practices across teams and also borrow from others
• Identify the right choice of tools & technologies for solving the problem to minimize time, money and maximize efficiency
• The last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues

Must have Skills
• Bachelor of Technology or Engineering for a reputed institute
• 12+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 5+ years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.
• Strong command over Spring, Spring Boot, JPA, Service Registry/Discovery, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching and other commonly used tools & techniques for building high performance distributed systems on the cloud
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and deploying high volume, high transaction based, distributed and redundant web applications
• Demonstrated ability to architect distributed applications and services on AWS
• Strong Understanding of technologies used for each tier in a N-tier architecture
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and design principles
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra
• Experience in Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcached, etc.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins & Kubernetes
• Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for latest and greatest tools and technologies for solving problems
• Excellent Troubleshooting Skills
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively and influence others

Highly Desired Skills
• Experience in Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
• Hands-on experience in building rich UI applications using JavaScript frameworks and libraries (such as Angular, Backbone), HTML and CSS.
• Experience in Apache NiFi, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, HDFS and other distributed file systems will be a big advantage
• Experience with AWS technologies such as - Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, CodeDeploy, Amazon EKS, etc.

What's in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, Zeta (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident & life insurance and since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the ''work hard/play hard'' credo every day.

Don't Just Play It – Create It!

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