Software Engineer

Software Engineer

At our core, Electronic Arts is a game maker that connects hundreds of millions of players from around the globe to some of the world's greatest games. The EAX team is guiding the strategy and implementation of important initiatives for EA's players to connect them to one another and to the games they love to play. These initiatives include: the EA app, EA Play, our cross-platform subscription, EA's gaming service on PC; and a host of other consumer experiences and ecommerce solutions related to connecting players across platforms and within our games.

In your role as a Software Engineer, you will work with a team to build APIs and web applications to support teams within EAX. You will collaborate across departments ( Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management ) and other internal customers to align and implement. You will also be a regular consumer of data to analyze performance of our live service products and collaborate with our senior engineers to identify live service opportunities to create richer player experiences. You will report to the Engineering Manager as a core contributor to the EAX team based in EA Vancouver.

Responsibilities:

• Build testable modular components/features and debug live issues.
• Collaborate with other developers to promote the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in the team.
• Collaborate across departments ( Design, Engineering, QA, Project Management ) and other internal customers to align and implement.
• Learn new technologies and apply new techniques to improve existing solutions.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in a technical role focused on development and operation of complex live services.
• Strong Javascript and Typescript experience.
• Familiarity with backend web technologies.
• Familiarity with databases.
• Experience with GraphQL, NodeJS, and Kubernetes is a plus.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with HTTP, HTTP caching and web servers, docker/kubernetes, Linux and AWS.
• Familiarity with Event Driven Systems.
• Familiarity with React, or other front end libraries such as Angular.
• Familiarity with using Java for backend server side development and working with a content management system such as Contentful.
• Supported and developed for a live service product.

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BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):
º $79,900 - $111,900 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. "