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Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

Team

We are a team within EA that manages the majority of the web ecosystem for EA, including destinations such as Origin, EA.com, and more. EAX is looking to build a team of engineers to create services and functionality to help shape our future.

What you will do:

• Be part of a distributed scrum team conformed by multiple disciplines
• Provide a unique blend of technical and people management skills to provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career guidance to a group of engineers
• Coach your team and help them see and reach their potential
• Work with technical directors to coordinate work and meet indicators
• Work with external teams
• Identify the technical impact of production/design decisions and surface the trade offs
• Help promote and champion the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in your scrum team
• Use your knowledge of software engineering concepts to design tested, reusable, and modular code
• Participate in project scoping, planning and design
• Work with both technical and feature product owners throughout the development process
• Provide iterative value for our players, marketing and game franchise partners
• Help build front-end components that power product capabilities
• Apply knowledge of goals to find creative solutions for the project, team, and group
• Be up for expanding your knowledge
• Have passion for your craft. You feel ownership over everything you ship.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
• Experience with team management theory
• Experience with how to motivate a team of engineers
• Experience leading a team of 4+ engineers
• Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries such as React, Redux, Apollo, AngularJS and Polymer
• Experience building, reusable, well tested, documented, components/applications that provide capabilities to an organization
• Experience and passion for promoting and mentoring others in software development best practices appropriate for the domain
• Technical and practical understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript front-end testing tools and methodology
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices
• Experience working in a Scrum team
• Experience using Git and related tools like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket
• Experience with TechOps / infrastructure systems - Amazon Web Services, Chef and Jenkins
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Expertise in delivering technical presentations
• Expertise in delivering system-level technical design and documentation

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with Web Components
• Experience with GraphQL

Perks and Benefits:

• Great compensation package and bonus (relocation assistance available)
• Comprehensive health, dental and benefit packages
• Employee discounts with many local and online retailers
• Free and discounted video games
• Tuition reimbursement for post-secondary education
• Pension with company match
• Employee referral bonus program
• Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at http://careers.ea.com/why-work-here
• EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.