Software Engineer - Online

Job Description

The studio behind the Project CARS and NFS Shift franchises is looking for a software engineer to join our Online team. You will be involved in all online areas of our games, including multiplayer gameplay, online competitions, friends, leaderboards, and much more. Use your knowledge to help us drive our player experience to the next level!

Responsibilities:
• Take an active part in the game design process to shape our online features
• Work with various EA teams and technologies to implement all online features
• Build stable, resilient, and maintainable systems
• Help detect and avoid malicious player activities by implementing multiple security features
• Test and refine online features throughout the development process
• Work with other departments to guarantee a smooth integration of features into the game
• Contribute to technical design documents
• Help maintain technical best practices
• Code review peer's work and provide constructive feedback
• Participate in and/or lead training sessions to help grow both personal and team knowledge

Requirements:
• At least 5 years C++ coding experience
• Excellent debugging skills
• Taken one or more games from start to finish in an online role
• Comfortable with console programming APIs and associated compliance requirements
• Experience working with multi-threaded architectures
• An understanding of networking (topologies, sockets, protocols)
• Familiarity with Client/Server & Peer-to-Peer packet handling, and latency / packet-loss mitigation techniques
• Experience implementing standard multiplayer features (matchmaking, leaderboards, friends, etc)
• Comfortable working in a predominantly remote environment covering multiple time-zones
Additional desirable experience:
• Implement server-side features
• Cross-platform play
• EADP

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbpynk-3-139-97-157-42 in your application.