# Senior Software Developer - Backend Applications

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,400 - $204,400 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their backend applications team. The successful candidate will work with developers and researchers to integrate new technologies into their core architecture.

As a Senior Software Developer, you will:

- Collaborate with motor engine developers, integrating creator-focused systems into the core architecture to create generative creation workflows

- Develop flexible, resilient, highly scalable web services available globally to serve millions of players

- Combine best practices and original security techniques to protect user data and prevent cheating

- Implement and optimize service deployment and ensure strategies maximize uptime

- Design and implement APIs and protocols that are consistent, formal, and testable

- Solve technical problems iteratively as requirements change during game development

- Prepare and review technical design documents and API specifications

- Maintain automated test suites that validate backend application services

- Contribute to 24/7 support for real-time environments

The ideal candidate will have:

- At least 7 years of hands-on coding experience

- Experience developing and supporting scalable web services hosted by a public cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Expertise with Python and Postgres

- Experience managing large-scale systems and features from design to deployment, including real-time support

- Developed high-quality software that can be tested

- Worked with designers and client engineers to add features and improve APIs iteratively

- Developed APIs for tools and products requiring updates without downtime

- Conducted load testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization for web services

- Worked with software that requires developing and optimizing queries and database access patterns

- Able to develop multiple ephemeral prototypes and iterate quickly

- Proficiency with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab

- Experience with AI coding agents like Claude Code

In terms of compensation, the salary range is:

- British Columbia: $141,400 - $204,400 CAD

- California: $165,000 - $256,000 USD

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, sick time, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plans.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Postgres
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Claude Code

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