Senior Software Engineer I

Overview

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Senior Software Engineer 1 - EADP Social

We Are EA

We’re EA—the world’s largest video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FC, Apex Legends, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don’t know how we’re committed to creating games for every platform—from social to mobile to console —to give our players that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your computing genius.

Opportunity Ahead

EA’s Digital Platform (EADP) organization is responsible for driving critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global scale, across all divisions and studio teams. Technology and engineering leadership at EA is critical to making the industry’s best games & services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform services that will keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.

EA Hyderabad has an opportunity for a Sr. Software Engineer 1 position. As an SSE 1, you will be a senior technical member of the central engineering team to design, develop, deploy, and maintain high throughput world class services at global scale for our next generation games. EA’s network of games caters to tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll have the opportunity to build sophisticated platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and driving 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 thrive in a fast paced, ever changing development environment this is a great opportunity for you.

What Would You Do

• Architect, design & build massively scalable services, solutions, and platforms with stellar performance.
• Provide technology roadmap & direction for platforms, products, and features.
• Innovate for simplicity and low maintenance
• Collaborate with distributed cross functional teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players
• Drive technical excellence amongst team members by coaching and mentoring
• Lead and deliver on company wide technology initiatives in partnership with other architects
• Provide 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, etc.
• Review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards
• Institutionalize & evangelize engineering best practices across teams.
• Identify the right choice of tools & technologies for solving the problem to minimize time, money and maximize efficiency.
• The last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues
  
  

Must have Skills

• Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute
• 12+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 8+ years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.
• Strong command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka etc.), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building high performance distributed systems on the cloud.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying high volume, high transaction based, distributed and highly available web applications.
• Demonstrated ability to architect distributed applications and services on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards.
• Strong 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 & understanding of DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes
• Excellent Troubleshooting & root cause analysis skills
• Superb ability to take high level direction, work through ambiguity and drive to execution in an iterative model.
• Superb ability to translate business requirements into technical design & architecture.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
• Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools and technologies for solving problems.
  
  

• Experience with EKS, Terraform, Helm
• Experience with event-driven design and frameworks like Akka.
• Experience in Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
• Experience in building & deploying web applications using service mesh (Istio) leveraging mesh features.
• Experience in Stream processing technologies – Kafka Streams, Flink etc.
  
  

We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, game credits, Zeta (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident & life insurance and since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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.