Senior Engineering Manager - EADP Social

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 154318

Position Title: Sr Manager Engineering

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Senior Manager Engineering

EA Digital Platform (EADP) Social - Senior Engineering Manager

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 Engineering Manager does within EADP Social Division at EA:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility will be to lead a team of engineers in design, architecting, building and operating several of our social services. Most of your time will be spent working with and leading the team in the design and execution of new features, while continually optimizing performance, robustness, and scalability of the service. You will also spend time working with product managers to create new features to support EA's many games. As a people manager you will be responsible for helping shape people’s careers and mentor the team in growing and reaching their full potential. Engineering leads at EA are expected to live by EA’s values: Be Human First, Play as One, Get it Done, Aim & Inspire, Listen & Improve.

Responsibilities:

Build a world class online services team.Grow and guide your team members.
Roughly 50% hands on coding - you can lead by example
Lead the technical design and architecture of major components in our large scale distributed HTTP based backend service, creating new features and updating existing ones
Working with customers and business leaders to understand customer needs and delivering incrementally on their highest priority features and requirements.
Develop, test, and support your live services in production.You own them and good game experiences depend on your service performance and reliability.

Required Skills / Experience:

Technical leadership, and/or mentoring experience.
Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
Superb ability to take high level direction, work through ambiguity and drive to execution in an iterative model
Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating on large distributed applications
Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems.You understand how to design service monitoring and how to load test properly.
Superb communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
9 or more years’ experience developing object oriented software (preferably in Java)
6 or more years’ experience working on online services (HTTP via REST) at Internet consumer scale
2 or more years’ experience managing and leading teams of engineers.

Nice to have Skills:

Experience building on Amazon Web Services, specifically DynamoDB, Kinesis, and Elastic Beanstalk strongly encouraged.
Experience with Bamboo / Maven / Java 8
Use of technologies such as memcached or Redis, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems helps as does deployment automation experience, e.g. Terraform.
Experience working with remote teams
Domain experience in enabling social services in other games or other verticals (e.g. building chat systems, friend leaderboards, etc.)

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts 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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 65

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