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Senior Server Engineer

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content, and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones, and tablets.

Glu Mobile India studio and now part of the Electronic Arts family. The combination of our talented teams at Glu and EA position us as a leader in the largest gaming category in the world. We are forming a powerful growth engine that will expand our current games and deliver more amazing new experiences across sports, lifestyle, mid-core, and casual for players everywhere. Come join us!

Team Overview:

• You will be part of the Studio Server Engineering team of highly skilled professionals that is responsible for running multiple game backend stacks
• We take pride in building and running large-scale backend systems at optimal cost

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new systems and pipelines
• Maintain existing codebase with other team members
• Be a highly technical, hands-on coder, tackle new challenges that arise during development
• Ensure agile, test-driven development, meeting quality requirements on time
• Hold yourself in a technical discussion, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence
• Provide direction and assistance to the entire team in areas related to client-server development.
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams
• Adhere to development standards and practices related to server engineering
• Produce and maintain design documentation and run books related to service operation
• Stay abreast of new developments and technologies related to building scalable game servers.
• Be a notably strong team member

Requirements:

• B.Tech in IT or Computer Science
• 4+ Years of experience and proven ability to develop and ship high-quality software products
• Excellent Go / Java programming skills including multithreading server programming, data structures, algorithms, and SQL / NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Java EE engineering practices and frameworks.
• Experience building highly scalable, highly available backend services
• Familiarity with SQL (such as Postgres, MySQL) and or NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB or DynamoDB)
• Familiarity with caching technologies such as Memcached or Redis Experience with continuous integration and deployment
• Demonstrably strong practical knowledge of traditional computer science principles
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have:

• HTML & JavaScript (React framework)
• Experience with Golang / Python Knowledge of Linux
• Previous experience on live systems.
• Experience using Git, Perforce, Jenkins and JIRA.