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Online Software Engineer - NBA Live
4 years ago
The Online Software Engineer provides major online gaming components and features for our EA Sports Franchises. With a focus on code quality, extensibility, scalability, latency, and testability, you will design, implement, and support our game engine components used to power online gaming experiences and services
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, enhance, and champion best practices for online technical design and architecture specifications.
- Develop leading reusable online server solutions, both systems and engines.
- Work directly other game team leads and technical directors (Gameplay, UI, Presentation, Graphics, etc.) to integrate online features and services
- Iterate, design, and implement improvements to live systems and workflows
- Provide solutions that take into account network latency, de-synchronization of data between networked machines/players, packet compression, cheating, and interrupted connections.
- Identify new technical opportunities from the team, clients, organization leaders, and industry trends
Required Technical Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
- 5+ years of development experience in an Agile/Scrum environment
- 2+ years of experience in a lead or product ownership role
- Expert level proficiency with C++ with an emphasis on OOP/D
- Experience with MySQL, SQL, and non-relational databases
- Windows and Linux and Unix experience.
- Experience with client-server architectures, network security, basic network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP and UDP), concurrency, load scaling considerations, object replication, and time synchronization and prediction
- Experience with cross-play models; development and integration (Console, Web, Mobile, Social)
- Multithreaded programming and debugging experience
- Experience with scripting languages (i.e. Lua, Python), XML and C#.
- Experience with ActionScript is a plus
- Test, debug, and extend other Software Engineer's code competently
- Exposure to encryption algorithms (SSL, RSA).
- Knowledge of source code management: Git or Perforce is preferred
- Experience developing on XBoxOne and PS4 Platforms is a plus
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