Java Software Engineer - Social Platform

Requisition Number: 165050

Position Title: Software Engineer II

External Description:

EADP

The EA Digital Platform (EADP) group provides central services that help game teams to tap into the power of the global EA ecosystem. Compatible across multiple platforms and devices, our platform empowers teams to foster deeper, more meaningful relationships with our players. The EADP is the foundation on which EA's games are built. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate into their games, we allow them to focus on making incredible games. These building blocks are made up of high-level service platforms including Cloud, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity and Social.

Social Platform - we believe that 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 and create new relationships with people they've only just begun to play 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.

Reporting to a Senior Manager Engineering, you will get to build our new cross-game, cross-platform and always on Social platform. This large-scale, collections of RESTful services will power the Social relationships, interactions of EA's network of games and capturing information to be experienced by tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second, and driving the player engagement of many of the industries most popular titles. You can build server-side systems that provide new functionality within the larger Digital Platform, and work on regular improvements to the systems to keep them at top-notch performance.

Most of your time will be spent developing features and optimizing performance and scalability of server systems. You will also work with a team of engineers to build the software design and architecture of our new systems.

Responsibilities:

• Create and work on large-scale distributed HTTP/TCP/GRPC-based backend service creating new features and updating existing ones
• Resolve defects during QA testing, pre-production, production and from the live environment
• Work with multiple clients working on multiple different platforms who use the features you create to complete user facing features
• Occasional off-hours support of the live environment ensuring our consumer experience is always outstandingRequired Experience:

Requirements:

• A BS in CS or equivalent work experience
• A passion for working in platforms that supports gaming
• 2+ years' experience developing object-oriented software (Java)
• Can explain technical issues to varied audiences
• Experience with source control systems like git or others

Bonus:

• Experience building on Amazon Web Services
• Some experience working on online services (HTTP via REST) at internet consumer scale
• Experience leading OSS technologies – Kafka, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Bamboo / Maven / Java 8/ RxJava/Akka
• Domain experience promoting social services in other games or other departments (e.g. building chat systems, activity feeds, and other core social feature areas)
• Experience working on high traffic services and scalable systems

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 118

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。