# Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced Principal Founding Engineer to lead the technology behind AI-native products from inception to wide release. This full-stack role focuses on scalable backend systems, working closely with client leads to architect products end-to-end.

Responsibilities:

- Own technical architecture and direction of Ventures products

- Develop scalable backend systems, including gRPC services and event streaming

- Build platform capabilities for social, predictions, and live content

- Design features end-to-end, partnering with client leads

- Utilize AI coding agents in software design, shipping, and operation

- Ensure production stability, observability, and cost efficiency

Requirements:

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Deep backend expertise in scalable distributed systems, preferably in Go with gRPC and Protocol Buffers

- Experience with event-driven and real-time architectures

- Strong data modelling skills across various databases

- Experience running production services in the cloud, ideally Google Cloud and Kubernetes

- Familiarity with AI coding agents is essential

- Fluency in web and mobile development for end-to-end architecture

The successful candidate will be measured on:

- Speed from idea to testable product

- Reliability, performance, and scalability of products

- Delivery of high-quality features

- Quality of architectural decisions

- Effective use of AI coding agents

- Cost-efficient operation of cloud infrastructure

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- gRPC
- Protocol Buffers
- Event-driven architecture
- Real-time systems
- Cloud computing (Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
- AI coding agents
- Web development
- Mobile development (iOS, Android)

### Nice to have
- Experience building LLM-powered or agentic product features
- Background in sports, gaming, or entertainment products

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