Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation

Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced Founding Engineer to own the technology behind its AI-native products. This hands-on, full-stack role involves architecting products end-to-end, from backend services to web and native iOS and Android clients.

The successful candidate will:

• Help own the technical architecture and direction of Ventures products
• Take new ideas from 0 → 1 and build testable versions quickly
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems
• Build platform capabilities that several products and existing EA games can share
• Architect for scale and failure
• Design features end-to-end across service and client boundaries
• Build with AI coding agents as a core part of the workflow
• Own production, including environments, deployments, and infrastructure as code
• Release user-facing changes safely through feature flags and staged rollouts
• Integrate with EA platform services and third-party sports data and AI providers
• Set the engineering standard for code review, testing, and architectural decisions
• Partner with product and design to shape roadmaps
• Support and onboard new engineers joining the team

The candidate's success will be measured by:

• Speed from idea to a testable product
• Reliability, performance, and scalability of products in production
• Delivery of high-quality features across backend and clients
• Quality of architectural decisions and maintainability of systems
• Safe and observable releases
• Effective use of AI coding agents
• Clear technical direction
• Cost-efficient operation of cloud infrastructure

The ideal candidate has:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep backend expertise designing and operating scalable distributed systems
• Experience with event-driven and real-time architectures
• Strong data modelling skills
• Experience running production services in the cloud
• Experience building software with AI coding agents
• Web and mobile fluency
• Proven ability to own a system end-to-end and make sound technical decisions

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, and family leave.