Software Engineer III

Job Title: Software Engineer III

Location: Hyderabad

Introduction to EA & India Centre: Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices, and the Internet.

You will report to Senior Manager, Engineering

For this role, you will report to Director, Software Engineering

Opportunity Ahead

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Software Engineer III. As a SE3, you will be one of the senior engineers of the central engineering team with responsibilities to design high throughput world class services at global scale for our next-generation games. You'll build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and promoting the player engagement of many of the industry’s most popular titles. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and excel this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do

• You will develop massively scalable services, solutions, platforms & UI components with stellar performance.

• Improve for simplicity and low maintenance.

• Collaborate with us, distributed teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players

• Provide us accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same.

• Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development

• Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning.

• Help us in review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards

• Institutionalise & promote engineering best practices across teams.

• Help us to identify the right choice of tools for solving the problem to minimize time, money and gain maximise efficiency.

Must have Skills.

• Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute

• 8+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 4+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.

• Experience with Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

• Command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building distributed systems on the cloud.

• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying high-volume, high transaction-based, distributed and available web applications.

• Architect distributed applications on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards. Understanding of microservices & event-driven patterns

• Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns and design principles

• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as RDS, Elasticsearch and Cassandra Experience in Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.

• Experience DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes

• Excellent Troubleshooting & Superb ability to take high-level direction, and drive to execution in an iterative model.

Superb ability to translate our requirements into technical design & architecture.

Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools for solving problems.

Desired Skills

• Experience with AWS

• Experience hosting & deploying UI artifacts.

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