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Software Engineer-II

Job Description

Position Title: Full Stack Engineer

Description/Background

What does the EA IT Employee Experience Engineering Team do?

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The Company's game franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more than 275 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.

Our team, the Employee Experience Engineering group is a new central technology team that is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining application and data services as well as enterprise mobile applications that support all employees throughout EA. Our goal is to produce high quality, reusable, services and web and mobile solutions that help each and every EA employee do their job and contribute to the goal of EA making the world’s greatest games.

What will you be doing?

This role is for an engineer who loves the challenge of building distributed, high availability, and resilient systems. You will be responsible for working with the team’s solution architects and lead engineers to implement their designs. On the services side, NodeJS micro services (REST) and cloud orchestration services. On the web and mobile application side, Angular and Ionic-based hybrid applications that can be deployed on web, iOS, and Android. The services and applications need to scale to performantly serve many thousands of users globally.

You will be responsible for writing the technical specifications, coding the services and applications in a secure and efficient manner, ensure highly performant and defect-free code through the development of unit and integration tests, leverage the use of continuous integration systems. You should be familiar with working in an Agile/Scrum model in a modern DevOps organization.

You must ensure stellar product quality by adhering to established code best practices and standards,. You should have excellent detailed design and coding skills in building APIs and have the technical experience in OS (Linux and macOS), hybrid mobile and cloud programming models.

You will be interacting with product managers, project managers, architects, quality engineers and infrastructure engineers across the US and other geographies.

Responsibilities

• Work with PMs, Architects, Network and Systems engineers to understand service and application needs, including build and deployment.

• Detailed Design and build service catalogs and APIs

• Work with Experience Designers to prototype and build web & mobile applications

• Be able to develop highly available and reliable applications in the cloud.

• Ensure all solutions being developed are well documented with proper technical specifications, testable and maintainable.

• Write unit tests for automation, and achieve 80%+ code coverage

• Implement monitoring, analytics and telemetry in code development

• Effectively communicate and coordinate with teams across various geographies, mainly US.

• Effectively communicate progress and issues with engineering and product/project managers.

Skills

Must Have

• Possess excellent JavaScript and General Programming Skills
• Experience developing high performance cloud-based, REST microservices with latest/recent versions of NodeJS
• Experience developing web applications with modern Javascript frameworks & packages (examples, Angular, React, GraphQL, Redux etc)
• Experience coding JavaScript applications/services using Typescript Object Oriented Programming.
• Work with various NonSQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB) and Cache (Redis, Redux, Elasticache, Memcache)
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks like mocha, chai and jest
• Experience instrumenting services/apps code for actionable monitoring and analytics using tools like Google Analytics and statsd
• Experience working with Git repositories for code commits, documentation and build automation
• Experience developing in cloud technologies, preferably AWS
• Experience working with cross functional teams such as Design and Product teams in an Agile work environment.

Extra Points

• Experience implementing and integrating with packaged applications (preferably Employee tools such as Slack, G Suite etc)
• Experience coding in other mainstream languages such as Python, Java
• Experience with Serverless Frameworks (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Azure Functions, etc...)
• Knowledge of/Experience with Hybrid Mobile Apps (Ex, Ionic, React Native)
• Native IOS or Android mobile development experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 6 to 8 years of engineering/development experience.

• Experience in distributed, network, and systems programming in Linux or macOS environment

• Strong written and oral communication skills are essential

• Self-starter with an eagerness to constantly learn and pass/share the knowledge along to the team.

• Strong sense of ownership/‘can do’ attitude and high attention to detail

• Ability to dive into difficult problems and deliver results on time and on spec

• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and problem solving