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Senior Back End Engineer
2 years ago
Job Title:
Senior Back End EngineerRequisition ID:
R008635Job Description:
Your Mission
As a Sr. Back End Engineer at Activision, you will work within the Experience Optimization group to build innovative and impactful web-based experiences and backend services. Candidates should have development experience with JSPs and the Spring Framework .
Key responsibilities include:
- Has API development experience within Cloud and Data Driven environments.
- Build and maintain tested, scalable and secure backend services using the Spring Framework.
- Collaborate with business partners, project managers, QA and UX/UI designers to ensure deliverables are met.
- Analyze site performance and make improvements.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning is a plus.
- Work in a collaborative environment with some pretty cool people.
Year 1 Success:
- Deliver localized web-based applications on-time with no critical issues to support key business milestones.
- Deliver performant and scalable backend APIs to support our web and mobile clients
Player Profile
- Working experience constructing JSPs as fragments using Apache Tiles
- Ability to formulate, review and recommend back-end software solutions in support of business objectives based on prior experience.
- Solid programming skills and proficiency with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
- Knowledge and experience with Java using the Spring Framework
- Experience with high-volume consumer facing web applications
- Expert capability in working with NoSQL and SQL databases
- Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
Your Platform
We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us!
Activision has been changing the way people play for the past 40 years—as the leading developer and publisher of video games, our teams have created some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking, and beloved entertainment franchises in the industry. Ask anyone who works at Activision what their favorite thing about it is, and they’ll tell you it’s the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure, and resources, but our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee’s brilliance.
Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world’s biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our current portfolio includes Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, and Crash Bandicoot™.
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe, is one of the largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies in the world. Sitting at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment, our employees are some of the best and brightest across engineering, entertainment, media, and technology. A member of the S&P 500 Activision Blizzard is proud to be included as one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies To Work For®," "World's Best Employers," as well as "Most Admired Companies." In 2019 we were honored to receive a perfect score on our entry to the Corporate Equality Index as a Best Workplace for LGBTQ professionals and once again made Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies in Gaming.
The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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