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Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III

At our core, Electronic Arts is a game maker that connects hundreds of millions of players from around the globe to some of the world’s greatest games. The EAX team is driving the strategy and implementation of important initiatives for EA’s community of players to connect them to one another and to the games they love to play. These initiatives include: EA Access, our cross-platform subscription currently on Origin, PS4, Xbox One and soon on Steam: Origin, EA’s gaming service on PC; and a host of other consumer experiences and strategies to connect friends across platforms and within our games.

In your role as Software Engineer III , you will be a hands-on technology leader, working with a strong team and depending on requirements, deliver a set of varied technical capabilities that can include APIs, web applications, design systems, client applications, and publishing pipelines. You will be partnering with the teams and responsibilities that your teams will support, always with an eye on how to achieve the best quality capabilities and services that our players can rely on.

Joining EAX means joining the team shaping EA’s subscription services now spanning three major platforms; building consumer experiences that power EA’s games and enabling more personalized, socially connected, and frictionless experiences; and expanding our platforms across web, PC, mobile, the cloud and beyond so our players can get into the games they want to play and stay connected while playing. We like to say that “we see farther”, and are committed to driving innovation to meet player needs today and in the future.

You’re someone with a proven track record for:

• Planning and developing APIs and features to meet a product teams requirements
• Participated in on-call activities to restore services rapidly
• Work with technical directors, and engineers to coordinate work and meet key performance indicators
• Collaborate with external teams
• Identify the technical impact of production/design decisions and surface the trade offs
• Partner with other engineers and champion the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in your scrum team
• Use your knowledge of software engineering concepts to design tested, reusable, and modular code
• Participate in project scoping, planning and design
• Work with both technical and feature product owners throughout the development process
• Have passion for our customers and passion for your craft.
• Making decisions based on data
• Documenting your learnings and best practices
• Finding your way. You’ve got experience that helps you work and thrive in a cross-functional organization
• Be part of a distributed scrum team conformed by multiple disciplines

You also bring the following skills or experiences to our team:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
• Hands-on experience developing and supporting API services at scale is a must have
• Technical and practical understanding of server-side application languages such as NodeJS or Java is a must have
• Familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures such as ActiveMQ and Kafka is a must have
• Experience with TechOps / infrastructure systems - Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins is a must have
• Expertise in delivering system-level technical design and documentation is a must have
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices
• Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases such as MySQL, Postgres or DynamoDB
• Comfortable contributing high quality, well tested code to complex code bases in a variety of languages including:

• • • Node
    • Javascript
    • GraphQL
    • Websockets
  • Experience using application monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic

On call responsibilities may be required for this role.