BioWare: Development Support Engineer Contract

Requisition Number: 153569

Position Title: Assoc Software Engineer

External Description:

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story.  Our teams drive innovation using cutting-edge tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and collaborate with thousands of world-class developers across EA’s network of studios.  We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling.  If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

 

BioWare is looking for a Development Support Engineer contractor who will be responsible for assisting the content creation teams (designers and artists) with their tools and processes. In this role, you will be the first point of technical support for content developers. You will be responsible for diagnosing and fixing the issues they run into, and for helping them create high-quality content.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide a “helpdesk” for content developers that run into technical issues. Help solve tool, process, etc. issues that prevent them from doing their work.
• Diagnose build failures caused by content issues and assist the content developers in fixing them.
• Make improvements to the content tools (primarily in C#) to improve processes and workflow.
• Assist with merging changes made in multiple branches, for example merging changes for an expansion with changes made for the live game.
• Work with the engineering team to fix bugs or implement new features.

Requirements:

• A degree in software engineering or equivalent job experience.
• A flexible working style. We are a small team, and everybody pitches in, sometimes in unexpected ways.
• A passion for working with end users (the content team), understanding and improving their processes.
• Proficiency in C# programming.
• Experience with Perforce or another version control system.

Preferred/Desired:

• Experience with C++.
• Experience with QuickBuild or another automated build system.
• Experience with a relational database.
• Experience with client-server engineering.

 

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked! 

The opportunity to work and learn from a world-class games studio making world-class games. We are a culture that thrives off 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

 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.

 

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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: 42

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.