Director of Engineering - Social Platform

Requisition Number: 152069

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer II

External Description:

EA Digital Platform (EADP) Social - Director Engineering

 

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 Director Engineering does within EADP Social Division at EA:

 

As a Director of Engineering, 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.
• Still be close to technology - frameworks, languages, able to review & provide feedback on design, code and recommend technologies for solutions
• 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
• Experience with leading OSS technologies - Kafka, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernettes
• 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.)

 

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

 

We are proud of the great perks we offer like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, pension 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. Health, Dental, Financial offered (ESPP and RRSP matching); Bonus and relocation assistance also offered.

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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Days Open: 140

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.