Software Engineer, Backend

Requisition Number: 174310

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

Software Engineer – Mobile Central Technology Backend Services

We’re looking for a server engineer to develop reliable, highly-scalable services to support our portfolio of mobile games.

Our Mobile Central Technology Team accelerates the growth and development of our games by building critical services supporting millions of players every day. We build solutions to continuously increase operational efficiency and rapidly advance towards innovations such as AI-driven optimization.

We’re looking for people with experience designing, developing, and shipping robust data-driven services at scale. We run a modern stack including technologies such as Spring Boot, Kinesis, Flink, and Kubernetes. We are excited to grow individuals who share our passion for learning, solving challenging technical problems, and constantly strengthening ourselves as individuals and as a team.

This engineer will have an opportunity to work in a high-impact and rewarding work environment and will have the ability to choose flexible work hours working with global teams.

Responsibilities:   

• Work with the server engineering team to deliver scalable and robust game services. Contribute as a highly technical hands-on developer.
• Collaborate with internal customers and partners across the organization on the usage and evolution of services developed.
• Establish and enforce development standards and practices related to server engineering. 
• Produce and maintain documentation and run books related to service operation.
• Build and support tools, tests, and infrastructure required to manage back-end services. 
• Work closely with technical leadership in identifying and planning engineering strategy. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science/mathematics/engineering, or other fields with proven engineering experience
• 3-5 years software engineering experience, especially working on high-throughput server applications
• Proficiency with Java and associated frameworks (esp. Spring Boot), and related concepts, such as async programming, caching
• Knowledge of SQL & NoSQL solutions understanding the pros and cons of relational and free form databases
• Experience working within a distributed REST-based service-oriented architecture
• Experience with agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery

Requirements:

• AWS, GCP, or other cloud service providers
• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Stream processing frameworks such as Storm, Kafka, Flink, or Beam
• Deployment and resource management frameworks (i.e. Kubernetes)

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Company Profile:

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.

EEOText:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 35

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.