Full Stack Software Engineer, Electronic Arts
Video game company
Job no longer available
Video game company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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 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 coding role
- Experience with client/server architecture
- Experience with multiple programming languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, C#)
- Experience building RESTful web services
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Operate with autonomy and provide solutions to issues
Desirable
- Worked in the games industry before
- Shipped and supported scalable web services hosted in the cloud
- Experience with Java/Kotlin or C++
- Experience working with modern Front End frameworks (React, Angular)
- Experience with version control (Git, Perforce)
- Experience with a relational database such as Spanner, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
- Desire to teach and learn from your peers
What the job involves
- We enable EA teams to build better games faster by building a framework around meta game systems that allows for high reusability, rapid development, and scalability. We enable best-in-class data solutions to give groups at all levels visibility and insight into games' performance and opportunities
- To build this framework, we are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join an experienced team of developers on a remote working basis
- Reporting to a Technical Director, you will work with multiple developers to bring the next game services to life. Many of our software engineers are "polyglots" and excel in multiple environments
- Develop responsive, resilient, massively scalable, and globally available services that support millions of players
- Creatively blend security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
- Apply and improve service deployment and troubleshooting strategies that maximise uptime
- Guide design and implementation of APIs and protocols that are consistent, formalised, and testable
- Demonstrate excellent debugging skills under iteratively changing requirements during development
- Author and review technical design documents and API specifications detailing software requirements
- Maintain a suite of automated tests that validate the correctness of backend services
- Collaborate and review code written by peers and game teams
- Provide technical support to game team developers/partners using our 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.
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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