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Software Engineer II for Gameplay Services
4 years ago
We Are EA
And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is not easy. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.
The Challenge Ahead:
Our platform powers online features for EA’s game titles serving millions of users each day. We live, breathe, and dream about how we can make every player’s multiplayer experience memorable. We develop services and SDKs in collaboration with EA’s game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking. We try to capture the most memorable portions of your experience, such as statistics to compare yourself to other players, achievements you earned during play, and even replays of your own games to share.
EA’s Digital Platform Gameplay Services team has a need for a Server Engineer in EASK, Burnaby. You will build scalable, distributed server-side systems that bring the latest functionality to our millions of customers and will work on creative improvements to keep our systems at top-notch performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design new tooling features and new tools that promote development process
- Maintain existing tooling frameworks
- Enhance and add features to existing systems
- Research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements
- Communicate with engineers from across the company to bring the next generation of online features for both established and not-yet-released games
- Be a part of the full product cycle for our products from design, implementation and testing to deployment and supporting of our LIVE environments and our game team customers
- Be a promoter for best practices within the engineering team
- Work with product managers to improve new features to support EA’s business
Basic qualifications:
- 3+ years hands-on Java/J2EE experience
- Experience with all phases of product development lifecycle, including requirement definition, development, test, and product release
- You are a curious, creative, and like to bring solutions to problems
- You can get your points across to interested parties and business partners
- Experience with Gitlab CI/CD pipeline
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience with high traffic services and highly scalable, distributed systems
- Experience with relational and NoSQL database
- Experience using AWS services
- Experience with Docker and Redis
- Experience with stress testing plus performance tuning and optimization
- Experience working within the games industries
- Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf
- Experience with Scala
What's In It For YOU? Glad You Asked!
We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, RRSP with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes outstanding people to make excellent games, we offer great benefits packages and a culture that powered by creativity and individuality.
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- Where you will be located: EA Still Creek - Burnaby, BC
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