Software Engineer

Job Description

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

You will report to Director of Engineering

We are EA Electronic Arts is more than you've ever realised. 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 working toward a shared vision: to inspire and unite through play. While headquartered in Redwood City, EA's platform engineering, game development, and publishing operations take place in a network of locations, stretching from Shanghai to Stockholm, Melbourne to Vancouver, Redwood City to Hyderabad. No matter which of our locations you join, you'll feel the and support of EA's global brand, while immersing yourself in a culture that inspires you to excel, take risks and dream big. This is an especially great time for the video game industry, as we're 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. Since its founding in 1982, EA has helped shape the way over 300 million registered players consume and enjoy interactive media. No other company EA's portfolio of amazing games and services, across multiple platforms, to players around the world. It is an exciting era in games, and an exciting time to join the team at EA! The Challenge Ahead: EA's Digital Platform (EADP) organisation drives important technology decisions and investments for EA on a global basis, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is to making the industry's best games and services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform infrastructure and services to keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.

What a Software Engineer – III, Player & Development Experience (PDE) does at EA:
• Provide technical leadership and be part of the technology team that develops the application platforms and tools which provides best player and developer experience.
• You will develop the products keeping system performance aspects like scalability and reliability, security, observability, in mind.
• You will design available Web applications and platform services which runs on distributed systems using micro services architecture
• Promote the developed products and onboard new customers internal to EA and ensure highest customer & player satisfaction
• Hands-on in Coding and Testing and Deployment in the large-scale environments.
• You will work with Product management and game teams to collect the requirements which will enhance the capabilities of the system.
• Guide the brainstorming on the new products, tools and services required by EADP teams & Game Teams.
• Evaluate latest technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company products.
• Work as an Individual contributor (IC) and mentors the junior engineers technically and groom them to become experts in the technical area. Responsibilities:
• Architect web applications, components & prototypes
• Participate in all aspects of an iterative, Agile software development process, including scoping, detailed design, effort estimation, coding, debugging, maintenance, and support
• Work with the design and product management team to build services that delight users.
• Document and present designs for peer technical review and provide feedback on other's designs
• Focus on preventing the introduction of defects during the software development process rather than finding defects after testing begins. You promote engineering excellence within your division.
• Influence the team's technical and our strategy by making insightful contributions to the team's priorities and approach.
• You work very achieve the right things.
• Harmonise discordant views, find the best way forward and convince your team. Demonstrate and navigate difficult situations with composure
• You will provide high-quality software and products with a Continuous Integration, Validation and Deployment methodology.
• use open-source products/tools and Architect the systems for easy maintenance of code and provide in smaller cycle time.

The next great EA Software Engineer - III also needs:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or higher
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Have working experience building applications.
• You will have knowledge of System Design, Micro Service architectures & Scalable distributed systems
• Experience in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot
• Expertise in REST, API and Microservice development
• Familiarity web infrastructure and operational technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana and Prometheus.
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Content Delivery Network (CDN) services and web performance optimizations. • Knowledge of distributed databases like RDS, cloud storage services like EFS , issues in Linux environment
• Experience with network protocols
• Good knowledge of building.
• A background in Data Structures, Algorithms, Design patterns and System design
• You will work in an environment with high degree of (previous startup like experience could be helpful)
• (oral and written) - of management and a geographically and culturally diverse technical organisation.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3kpon-3-138-141-202-42 in your application.