Software Engineer, Electronic Arts
12 Month Contract
CA$115.1-161.2k
Salary applicable to British Columbia applicants only. For California, NY, Jersey City, Colorado and Washington applicants the range is $125,300 - $204,700
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Video game company
1001+ employees
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CA$115.1-161.2k
Salary applicable to British Columbia applicants only. For California, NY, Jersey City, Colorado and Washington applicants the range is $125,300 - $204,700
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.
Role
Who you are
- If you have experience with building services for user generated content through modern techniques connecting multiple services together we want to hear from you
- Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of job experience in a hands-on development role
- Shipped and supported scalable web services hosted in the cloud
- Experience with development, deployment and live support of large systems and features
- Experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Java/Kotlin, TypeScript
- Knowledge of platforms, architectures and the CNCF landscape with an understanding of Kubernetes, Kubernetes API and CRDs
- Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Developed APIs for products that release new updates with zero downtime strategies and tools
- Experience with load testing, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance of web services
- Experience communicating updates and resolutions to our game team partners
Desirable
- You've worked in the games industry before
- You've shipped web services that scale to millions of daily users
- You have experience working in large data-driven services
What the job involves
- To enable players to become creators, we are looking for a Software Engineer to shape the technology that powers creation
- You will work with an experienced team that has collectively built and worked on games and backend services for more than two decades
- You will work with multiple developers to bring the next game services to life
- Develop responsive, resilient, massively scalable, and globally available services that support millions of players
- Embrace and apply vision of SRE principles and Best Practices
- Apply and improve service deployment and troubleshooting strategies that maximize uptime
- Design, review and implement APIs that are consistent, and testable
- Work with client engineers and designers to iteratively add features and improve APIs
- Maintain a suite of automated tests that validate the correctness of backend services
Our take
EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.
A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.
This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 1982
$2m
SERIES A
May 1982
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company values
- Creativity: Striving to bring imagination, orginal ideals, and excitement to everything we do
- Pioneering: Acting with the curiosity and courage that it takes to experiment, innovate, and lead
- Passion: We are at our best when we pursue what we love, and have fun doing it
- Determination: Bringing focus, drive, and conviction to our actions. Thriving on the journey, and being mortivated to achieve excellence
- Learning: Listening, having humility, being open to new ways of thinking, and looking with a lens of inclusion. Challenging ourselves to grow and change as a company
- Teamwork: Committed to each other, and to the accountability and integrity tit takes to be a successful diverse team
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Wilson
(CEO, not founder)Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Electronic Arts
- Our intentional efforts to embed principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in our people practices have generated results across our teams.
- We have made progress in company-wide representation of women and underrepresented minorities.
- We have achieved a 46 percentage point increase in underrepresented talent in executive roles (VP+) over the last two fiscal years.
- We have hired underrepresented talent above our representation rates for the fourth consecutive year.
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