Electronic Arts

Requisition Number:183484

Can this position be remote?: No

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

Job Title: Software Engineer III

Location: Hyderabad

Introduction to EA & India Centre: Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices, and the Internet.

You will report to Senior Manager, Engineering

For this role, you will report to Director, Software Engineering

Opportunity Ahead

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Software Engineer III. As a SE3, you will be one of the senior engineers of the central engineering team with responsibilities to design high throughput world class services at global scale for our next-generation games. You'll build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and promoting the player engagement of many of the industry’s most popular titles. If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and excel this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do

• You will develop massively scalable services, solutions, platforms & UI components with stellar performance.
• Improve for simplicity and low maintenance.
• Collaborate with us, distributed teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players
• Provide us accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same.
• Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development
• Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning.
• Help us in review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards
• Institutionalise & promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Help us to identify the right choice of tools for solving the problem to minimize time, money and gain maximise efficiency.

Must have Skills.

• Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute
• 8+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 8+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.
• Experience with Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building distributed systems on the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying high-volume, high transaction-based, distributed and available web applications.
• Architect distributed applications on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards. Understanding of microservices & event-driven patterns
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns and design principles
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as RDS, Elasticsearch and Cassandra Experience in Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
• Experience DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes
• Excellent Troubleshooting & Superb ability to take high-level direction, and drive to execution in an iterative model.

Superb ability to translate our requirements into technical design & architecture.

Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools for solving problems.

Desired Skills

• Experience with AWS
• Experience hosting & deploying UI artifacts.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

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.