Software Engineering Manager, Frontend (JavaScript)

Requisition Number: 156547

Position Title: Manager Engineering

External Description:

Team

EAX is a team within EA that manages several digital distribution and subscription products including Origin and EA Access. Access allows users to purchase subscriptions and games on PC and console platforms. Users can stay connected to everything Access, take their pick of all the great games in ‘The Vault’ and play as much as they want for a low monthly, and even lower annual, subscription fee. They can put upcoming EA games to the test before the release date with exclusive Play First Trials.

Origin client and subscription service: www.origin.com

EA Access Xbox hub and subscription service: www.ea.com/eaaccess

We’re looking for a passionate and resourceful software engineer to join the EAX team and help us provide our players a first-in-class gaming experience.

What you will do:

• Be part of a distributed ~10-15 person cross functional scrum team
• Provide a unique blend of technical and personal skills to provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career guidance to a group of engineers
• Coach your team and help them see, reach and extend their potential
• Work with technical directors to coordinate work and meet goals
• Collaborate with external teams
• Identify the technical impact of production/design decisions and surface the trade offs
• Help improve and champion the culture of performance, maintainability, quality and automation in your scrum team
• Use your knowledge of software engineering concepts to design and implement tested, reusable, and modular code
• Actively participate in project scoping, planning, design, and execution
• Work closely with both technical and feature product owners throughout the design and development process
• Deliver iterative value for our players, marketing and game franchise partners
• Contribute to building robust, front-end components that power key capabilities
• Apply knowledge of the goals to find creative solutions for the project, team, and group
• Have passion for your craft. You feel ownership over everything you ship.

Skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
• Understand team management theory
• Understand how to motivate a team of engineers
• Experience leading a team of 4+ engineers
• Experience managing, mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries such as React, Redux, Apollo, AngularJS and Polymer
• Experience building robust, reusable, well tested, documented, components/applications that provide important capabilities to an organization
• Experience and passion for promoting and mentoring others in software development best practices appropriate for the domain
• Technical and practical understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript front-end testing tools and methodology
• Experience with both object-oriented and functional software design principles
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices
• Experience working in a cross functional Scrum team
• Experience using Git and related tools like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket etc
• Experience with TechOps / infrastructure systems - Amazon Web Services, Chef and Jenkins
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Expertise in delivering technical presentations
• Expertise in delivering system-level technical design and documentation

Bonus Skills and experience:

• Experience with Typescript
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with iOS or Android development

Perks and Benefits:

• Great compensation package and bonus (relocation assistance available)
• Comprehensive health, dental and benefit packages
• Employee discounts with many local and online retailers
• Free and discounted video games
• Tuition reimbursement for post-secondary education
• Pension with company match
• Employee referral bonus program
• Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at http://careers.ea.com/why-work-here

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. är ett globalt ledande mjukvaruföretag för interaktiv underhållning. EA levererar spel, innehåll och onlinetjänster för internetuppkopplade spelkonsoler, persondatorer, mobiltelefoner och surfplattor.

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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: 171

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Om EA

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Vi sätter våra anställda i första rummet. Vi erbjuder omfattande förmånspaket med fokus på hälsa och välstånd för att möta dina behov och hjälpa dig få en bra balans mellan karriären och privatlivet. Vi erbjuder dynamiska och samarbetsinriktade arbetsmiljöer, möjlighet att samverka via våra resursgrupper och hjälp med ett balanserat liv genom betald ledighet, föräldraledighet, gratis spel och mycket mer!

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