Austin Mobile Team: Game Engineer- Star Wars Rise to Power

Requisition Number: 152095

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

At Electronic Arts, players come first. We are looking for the most talented and relentless game developers in the world to join us on our mission to bring the best mobile games in the world to market. Mobile games are increasingly important part of the industry and consequently vital to our future success. Our mobile organization is growing to meet this challenge – with studios around the planet and a portfolio of blockbuster titles like Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, FIFA, Madden, NBA, Real Racing, SimCity, The Sims, and Plants vs. Zombies.  

We are looking for a Game Engineer to join our new mobile team in Austin, Texas working on a new MMO strategy game, Star Wars: Rise to Power.  

ROLE 

Upon joining the Star Wars: Rise to Power Team, you’ll immediately start working with the existing team to create and support new features – interacting with live services, building code for high performance servers, and creating user-facing code on various platforms.  We’re looking for a highly motivated and experienced engineer ready to dive into building and debugging features in the game – working with a team of developers, designers, and content creators to deliver against an exciting and challenging new Star Wars Game Experience! 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

As a Senior Game Engineer, you will: 

• Partner with other team members, foster a culture of best practices and collaborative architectural decisions 

• Mentor other team members, create/maintain an onboarding program, and support code reviews and architectural deep dives 
• Work with the team to help define and build new features based on design documents 
• Generate accurate estimates for the development of new features 
• Apply debugging skills to both familiar and unfamiliar sections of code to reduce defects 
• Be a key member of the engineering community – programmer meetings, group chats, code reviews, post-mortems 

• Embrace a problem-solving mindset – avoid over-engineering and under-engineering to find the perfect balance 
• Don’t settle for 80% – strive for a high-quality product and commit to “DONE” – and help your teammates do the same 
• Play the game!  We want you to be proud of what you build! 

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience 
• 8+ years development experience with game development, multithreaded programming, and/or large/complex codebases 
• Mastery of Object-Oriented Design 
• Mobile development experience 
• Experience building applications in Unity 

• Experience building scalable systems and an ability to demonstrate architecture and design skills 
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language 
• Comfortable working with cloud-based systems and/or local servers, web-based protocols, REST APIs, sockets 

 

PLUSES  

• Experience with Python, Javascript 
• Proficiency in 3D math 
• Experience with Unity UI development (building game/app UI with Unity) 
• Objective C 

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. 

 

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/austin 

 

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Community / Marketing Title: Austin Mobile Team: Game Engineer- Star Wars Rise to Power

Company Profile:

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Days Open: 73

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.