# Software Engineer - IPS

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

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/it_IT/careers/JobDetail/Software-Engineer-IPS/216413?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts creates superior entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects globally. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are stimulated, and ideas matter. A team where everyone can play.

The Infrastructure & Platform Services (IPS) group provides central services that help game teams tap into the power of the global EA ecosystem. Compatible across multiple platforms and devices, our platform empowers teams to foster deeper, more meaningful relationships with our players. The IPS is the foundation on which EA's games are built. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate into their games, we allow them to focus on making incredible games. These building blocks are made up of high-level service platforms including Cloud Infrastructure, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity and Social.

Main Responsibilities:

- Work with product managers to understand business requirements and translate them into secure, scalable technical designs reviewed by key partners.

- Lead the end-to-end technical design and implementation of platform features and service capabilities.

- Design underlying database schemas and robust interfaces (REST/gRPC) to ensure optimal data flow and system consistency.

- Leverage AI-powered coding assistants and developer tools to accelerate feature implementation, automate repetitive coding tasks, and optimize performance.

- Write high-quality, maintainable code with comprehensive unit testing, utilizing AI tools to assist in generating test cases and finding edge cases.

- Safely migrate legacy infrastructure and authentication systems to modern cloud platform architectures.

- Troubleshoot complex live-site issues, fix bugs raised from integration, and proactively resolve customer/player problems.

- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies,including AI-assisted development workflows,to improve team development velocity and platform capabilities.

- Perform rigorous code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure team-wide consistency, architectural alignment, and high code quality.

- Mentor junior engineers, new hires, and interns, sharing best practices for coding, architecture, and the responsible use of AI tools.

- Active participant in the technical hiring and interview process to help grow the engineering team.

Qualifications:

- 1+ years of professional experience in software development.

- Solid background in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, and distributed systems.

- Deep experience with backend development using languages such as Java.

- Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, or similar IDE assistants) to write, debug, document, and refactor code.

- Experience designing or architecting components of a large-scale system or online service.

- Proven experience in live-site troubleshooting and maintaining service availability.

- Bonus Qualifications: Experience building and running high-throughput, large-scale distributed online services is a big plus.

- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical major is required.

Benefits:

- We offer a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, work-life balance, and collective well-being to support a balanced life. Our packages are designed to meet local needs and may include health coverage, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- algorithms
- data structures
- operating systems
- distributed systems
- Java
- AI-assisted coding tools
- GitHub Copilot
- REST
- gRPC
- database design
- API design

### Nice to have
- high-throughput distributed online services

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