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Application Architect

Role: UI Architect

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 trivial. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

What would I do:

As part of EA-IT, you will offer a seasoned architect an opportunity to build scalable, highly available and performant web-based applications and solutions, including development architecture, design and coding standards, tools and frameworks. Leading a team of engineers, as a full stack architect you will develop several business essential applications both for Internal Users and EA Players, using latest technology and design principles. You would also work with Scrum masters and Product owners to accomplish the product vision .End to end technical ownership of product/application is a part of your responsibility.

Key Responsibilities:

• A top-level contributor in direction for major, complex programmes intended to roll out high-volume, high transaction-based web applications
• A hands-on person leading the team from the front and finding solutions using technology and logical thinking.
• Initiate and improve experiences in partnership with distributed teams to ensure all aspects of the architectural vision are communicated and supported to the highest standards
• Work as an architecture team lead on large projects, ensuring that robust solutions are implemented
• Track development deliverable and communicate their status to global teams
• Estimate engineering effort during several stages of project life cycle
• Provide architectural guidance to quality assurance on all new code from beginning through integration, staging and production environments
• Collaborate and work with outstanding designers, engineers of different technical backgrounds, architects and product managers
• Coach and guide 2-4 lead developers in accomplishing architecture, design and implementation goals in addition to individual contribution in coding.
• Manage end-to-end development architecture, thus ensuring the code written to implement the architecture and design meets the highest standards regarding code quality and efficiency
• Integrate research and best practices into problem avoidance and continuous improvement
• Experience with agile/scrum methodologies to iterate quickly on product changes, developing user stories and working through backlogs

The next great EA Applications Architect also needs:

• 10+ years of experience in UI technologies.
• Experienced leading a team of 6+ members.
• Experienced with architecting and deploying high-volume, high transaction-based, distributed and highly available web applications.
• Experience with Full stack modern technologies from UI layer to middleware and DB layer in detail.
• Minimum of 5 plus years of strong hands-on experience in Angular or React
• Candidate with good experience in React Native/ Ionic and mobile app development.
• Expert jQuery, Object-oriented JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax coding skills and JavaScript async patterns (closures, callbacks, promises, error handling)
• Good grasp of modern and rich UI application architecture with preferable coding experience in JavaScript frameworks and libraries (such as Angular, Backbone), Html and CSS.
• Expert in Server-side development using Node.js
• Experienced with architecture and design of web applications on cloud platforms like AWS.
• Experienced with implementing Continuous Integration, Delivery best practices.
• Experience leading technical teams in delivering web technology architecture, design and implementation.
• Experience with modern distributed architecture and development frameworks (such as SOA, Lambda, Microservices) for scalable and performance applications
• Experience with design patterns.
• Experience with Databases including, Mongo and MySQL
• Experience writing shell scripts
• Hands-on coding experience
• Excited to learn
• Experience working in Agile methodology
• Experience in Development Maintenance, and Enhancement projects

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, Sodexo (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident and life insurance and since we realise it takes outstanding people to make outstanding games, we offer great benefits packages and a culture that succeeds on creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!