Senior Software Engineer I (80864)

 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 hard work.  That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry. 

Save the planet from Alien Invaders.  Score the winning touchdown.

Yup - It's the coolest job on the planet! 

The Challenge Ahead:

Is to enable social capabilities within our games.   We believe that fundamentally people want to experience and play games with others, and that games are more fun when experienced as part of a team.   We want to make it easy for players to find other players they already know as well as create new relationships with people they’ve only just begun to interact with inside a game.  We aim to build better recommenders for a variety of different games to recommend people to teams, friends to people, and opponents.   We want to incentivize users to engage socially and create a sense of community.  

What a Senior Software Engineer does within EA's Social Division at EA:

As a software engineer your primary responsibility will be to lead efforts to develop backend services supporting social features across EA’s portfolio of games.   Example services:   chat, friend leader boards, social rewards, teams & groups, friends and friend recommendations, etc.    You will also spend time working with producers and engineers to design and implement networked game and business features.  

 The Next Great Server Software Engineer also needs to have: 

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Team leadership, management, and/or mentoring experience
• 7+ years hands-on Java/J2EE experience
• Strong expertise working on RESTful web services at Internet consumer scale
• Use of technologies such as memcached, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems
• Experience working within the mobile and/or games industries
• Relational database expertise with MySQL and/or Oracle
• Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems
• First-hand experience with all phases of product development lifecycle, including requirement definition, architecture, technical design, development, test, product release, and live operation
• Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills; solution oriented individual
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

What's In It For YOU?  Glad You Asked! 

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.