Staff Software Engineer

Requisition Number: 176034

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer I

External Description:

Glu Mobile’s diverse portfolio features original and licensed IP titles like Covet Fashion, Design Home, Diner DASH Adventures, Disney Sorcerer’s Arena, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and MLB Tap Sports Baseball. Glu’s culture is rooted in fostering creativity to deliver world-class mobile experiences for players around the world. 

Role Overview

 

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to build and lead the backend development efforts for our Design Home game. In this position, you will be exposed to using PHP at scale and to build distributed systems in a very fast paced environment. You will also lead key discussions around server architecture and design.

Responsibilities:

• Design, architect, implement and document game features and services
• Mentor your team members
• Optimize, refactor and fine tune code for performance and maintainability
• Lead and coordinate development efforts with your team and cross functional teams
• Become the key knowledge holder of server components

 

Requirements:

• 8+ years of backend systems development experience, preferably in game development
• Experience leading backend development teams
• Expertise with PHP framework Laravel/Lumen
• Experience in building microservice oriented architecture at scale
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS services 
• Solid knowledge of OOP, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures
• Excellent communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills
• Passionate about building games that will be played by millions around the world
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Game Development or equivalent experience

 

Preferred:

• HTML, CSS, and Javascript experience
• Linux shell scripting expertise
• Experience with service containers such as Docker
• Experience with Git based source control such as Gitlab, Github
• Experience with Couchbase and Redis
• Experience building games and related services/tools

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.

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Days Open: 71

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.