Software Engineer - EA Sports FC

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FC franchise. EA SPORTS FC is the world's #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Innovation, passion, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne, we're looking for the brightest talent, so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.

Ultimate Team is a mode within EA Sports FC that lets you build your dream squad, play matches to earn Coins, use the Transfer Market to buy and sell Player Items, and create your Ultimate Team to make your mark on the pitch.

Behind the scenes, Ultimate Team is a live service with multiple platforms (console clients, PC, comp app, web app) working with online services to make the mode a success.

The Ultimate Team servers are optimized to work under high workloads and reliably handle the requests from millions of users globally.

In this context, the Java Server Engineers will work on the development of automation, tools and http clients responsible for stress testing the Ultimate Team servers and providing visibility into the performance of the overall system.

You will collaborate within a large team, both locally and across EA studios (Bucharest and Vancouver).

Your Responsibilities:

You will work on the development of automation, tools and http clients responsible for stress testing the Ultimate Team servers and providing visibility into the performance of the overall system.

You will collaborate within a large team, both locally and across other EA studios (Bucharest and Vancouver).

Your Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Java programming experience
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Technologies:

• Java 8+
• Microservices (REST APIs over HTTP).
• Unit/ Mock Testing (J-Unit, Mockito)
• Continuous Integration CI/CD (Jenkins or similar)
• Perforce/Git
• Apache Maven/Gradle
• Servers
• MySQL/SQL
• Basic Linux/shell commands.
• Experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

This is a Temporary 12-month contract position.