Job Summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a talented Software Engineer I to join our Online Backend team. As a key member of our team, you will design and implement scalable, distributed backend systems that power our matchmaking, integrated in EA's biggest titles and enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console
• Enhance and add features to existing systems
• Communicate with engineers from across the company to deliver the next generation of online features for both established and not-yet-released games
• Aim to optimize performance and scalability of server systems
• Be a part of the full product cycle for our products, from design and testing to deployment and supporting our LIVE environments and our game team customers
• Maintain a suite of automated tests that validate the correctness of backend services
• Build and maintain a build system
• Advocate for best practices within the engineering team
• Work with product managers to improve new features to support EA's business

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• Experience in software development with Go, C#, or C++
• Solid computer science background including algorithm and data structure usage
• Experience with cloud computing products such as AWS EC2
• Experience with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Experience with relational or NoSQL database
• Adept at solving complex technical problems
• Strong sense of collaboration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Jenkins and Groovy
• Experience with Ansible
• Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf
• Experience with high traffic services and highly scalable, distributed systems
• Knowledge of scalable data storage and processing technologies such as Cassandra, Apache Spark, and AWS S3
• Experience with stress testing plus performance tuning and optimization
• Experience working within the games industries

About Electronic Arts

We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

Benefits

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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What you'll do

The Gameplay Services Team develops services and SDKs in collaboration with EA's game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will build scalable, distributed server-side systems that provide functionality to our millions of customers and work on creative improvements to keep our systems at top-notch performance.

What you need

• 3+ years hands-on experience Java/Kotlin and Microservices

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And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is challenging. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

What you'll do

The Challenge Ahead:

Our platform powers online features for EA’s games, serving millions of users each day. We live, breathe, and dream about how we can make every player’s multiplayer experience memorable. We develop services and SDKs in collaboration with EA’s game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking.

What you need

• Responsibility 1: Design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console
• Responsibility 2: Enhance and add features to existing systems
• Responsibility 3: Research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements
• Responsibility 4: Communicate with engineers from across the company to deliver the next generation of online features for both established and not-yet-released games

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