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Online Software Engineer - EA Sports - C++

The Online Software Engineer provides major online gaming components and features for our EA Sports Franchises. With a focus on code quality, extensibility, scalability, latency, and testability, you will design game engine components used to power online gaming experiences and services

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance, and champion best practices for online technical design and architecture specifications.
• Develop leading reusable online server solutions, both systems and engines.
• Work directly other game team leads and technical directors (Gameplay, UI, Presentation, Graphics, etc.) to integrate online features and services
• Design and implement improvements to living systems and workflows
• Provide solutions that take into account network latency, de-synchronization of data between networked machines/players, packet compression, cheating, and interrupted connections.
• Identify latest technical opportunities from the team, clients, organization leaders, and industry trends

Required Technical Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
• 5+ years of development experience in an Agile/Scrum environment
• 2+ years of experience in a lead or product ownership role
• Expert level proficiency with C++ with an emphasis on OOP/D
• Experience with MySQL, SQL, and non-relational databases
• Windows and Linux and Unix experience.
• Experience with client-server architectures, network security, basic network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP and UDP), concurrency, load scaling considerations, object replication, and time synchronization and prediction
• Experience with cross-play models; development and integration (Console, Web, Mobile, Social)
• Multithreaded programming and debugging experience
• Experience with scripting languages (i.e. Perl, Lua, Python), XML and C#.
• Experience with ActionScript is a plus
• Test, debug, and extend other Software Engineer's code competently
• Exposure to encryption algorithms (SSL, RSA).
• Knowledge of source code management: Git or Perforce is preferred
• Experience developing on XBoxOne and PS4 Platforms is a plus