Software Engineer III

Requisition Number: 176436

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

Position Title:  Software Engineer - III

Location: Austin, TX

 Description/Background

 What does the EA IT Employee Experience Engineering Team do?

 Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The Company's game franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones, and tablets. EA has more than 275 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.

 Our team, the Employee Experience Engineering group is a new central technology team that is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining application and data services as well as enterprise mobile applications that support all employees throughout EA. Our goal is to produce high quality, reusable, services and web and mobile solutions that help each and every EA employee do their job and contribute to the goal of EA making the world’s greatest games.

 What will you be doing?

 This role is for an engineer who loves the challenge of building distributed, high availability, and resilient systems. You will be responsible for working with the team’s solution architects and lead engineers to implement their designs. On the services side, NodeJS micro services (REST) and cloud orchestration services. On the web and mobile application side, React and StencilJS applications that can be deployed on web, iOS, and Android. The services and applications need to scale to performantly serve many thousands of users globally.

You will be responsible for writing the technical specifications, coding the services and applications in a secure and efficient manner, ensure highly performant and defect-free code through the development of unit and integration tests, and leverage the use of continuous integration systems. You should be familiar with working in an Agile/Scrum model in a modern DevOps organization.

You must ensure stellar product quality by adhering to established code best practices and standards,. You should have excellent detailed design and coding skills in building APIs and have the technical experience in OS (Linux and macOS), hybrid mobile and cloud programming models.

You will be interacting with product managers, project managers, architects, quality engineers and infrastructure engineers across the US and other geographies

Responsibilities

• Work with PMs, Architects, Network and Systems engineers to understand service and application needs, including build and deployment.
• Work with Experience Designers to prototype and build web & mobile applications
• Be able to develop highly available and reliable applications in the cloud.
• Ensure all solutions being developed are well documented with proper technical specifications, testable and maintainable.
• Write unit tests for automation, and achieve 80%+ code coverage
• Implement monitoring, analytics and telemetry in code development
• Effectively communicate and coordinate with teams across various geographies, mainly US.
• Effectively communicate progress and issues with engineering and product/project managers.

Skills

• Possess excellent JavaScript and General Programming Skills
• Knowledge developing high performance cloud-based, REST microservices with latest/recent versions of NodeJS
• Knowledge developing web applications with modern Javascript frameworks & packages (examples: React, NextJS, GraphQL, Redux etc)
• Experience coding JavaScript applications/services using Typescript Object Oriented Programming.
• Work with various NonSQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB) and Cache (Redis, Redux, Elasticache, Memcache) 
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks like mocha, chai and jest
• Experience instrumenting services/apps code for actionable monitoring and analytics using tools like Google Analytics
• Experience working with Git repositories for code commits, documentation and build automation
• Experience developing in cloud technologies, preferably AWS
• Experience working with cross functional teams such as Design and Product teams in an Agile work environment.
• Experience implementing and integrating with packaged applications (preferably Employee tools such as Slack, G Suite etc)

• Experience coding in other mainstream languages such as Python, Java
• Knowledge with Serverless Frameworks (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Azure Functions, etc...)
• Knowledge of Data Analysis and Machine learning is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience in distributed, network, and systems programming in Linux or macOS environment
• Strong written and oral communication skills are essential
• Self-starter with an eagerness to constantly learn and pass/share the knowledge along to the team.
• Strong sense of ownership/‘can do’ attitude and high attention to detail
• Ability to dive into difficult problems and deliver results on time and on spec
• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and problem solving

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.は、インタラクティブ・エンターテイメント・ソフトウェアの世界的大手企業です。 EAは、インターネットに接続されたコンソール、パソコン、携帯電話、タブレットに対してゲーム、コンテンツおよびオンラインサービスを提供しています。

EEOText: EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無、および法律で保護されたその他のあらゆる状況は考慮されません。 また、犯罪歴のある人物の雇用も、募集要項を満たす応募者の場合は適用法令に従って検討します。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。

Days Open: 57

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。