Associate Software Engineer

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

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  Design, develop, and run a fast, scalable, highly available game service all the way from conception to delivery to live service operations
• Work with designers, client engineering, and production teams to achieve gameplay goals
• Implement security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
• Create and run automated testing, readiness testing, and deployment plans
• Monitor the performance and costs of the server infrastructure to improve our game
• Design and implement data transformation layers using Java/Spring/AWS/Protobuf
• Collaborate with game server and web frontend teams to define API contracts
• Manage Release Ops / Live Ops of web services

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  1+ years development of scalable back-end services
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Proficiency in Java or similar programming languages
• Experience with Cloud services like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Database Design and usage of large datasets in both relational (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Couchbase, DynamoDB) environments
• Experience defining API contracts and collaborating with cross-functional teams

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  1+ years of experience developing games using cloud services like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar
• Experience with Protobuf for data transformation layers
• Proficient in technical planning, solution research, proposal, and implementation
• Background using metrics and analytics to determine the quality or priority
• Comfortable working across client and server codebases
• Familiar with profiling, optimizing, and debugging scalable data systems
• Passion for making and playing games