# Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Offsite, UK
**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 own the technology behind AI-native products as they go from 0 → 1 and beyond. This is a hands-on, full-stack role with a strong lean towards scalable backend systems.

The future of entertainment is interactive, and Electronic Arts' Ventures Group plays an important role in this future by building content, culture, and community that take users Beyond Gaming. The focus is on how fans experience sport in their everyday lives, before, during, and after the live moment.

Responsibilities:

- Help own the technical architecture and direction of Ventures products end to end, across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and web and native iOS and Android clients.

- Take new ideas from 0 → 1: build testable versions quickly to generate evidence, then harden what works for growth.

- Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems, including gRPC services, event streaming, and durable workflows that serve real-time experiences around live sport.

- Build platform capabilities, such as social, predictions, and live content, that several products and existing EA games can share.

- Architect for scale and failure: fan-out cost, backpressure, idempotency, reconnect behaviour, data growth, and recovery as audiences grow.

- Design features end to end across service and client boundaries, including API and data contracts, real-time delivery, and local-first sync on mobile, partnering with the client leads on web, iOS, and Android implementation.

- Build with AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow, and own the tooling, guardrails, and review practices that let agents work safely and quickly across the codebase.

- Own production, including environments, deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, and the cost of cloud and third-party services.

- Release user-facing changes safely through feature flags, staged rollouts, and tested rollback plans, holding every launch to EA's bar for load, security, localisation, and monitoring.

- Integrate with EA platform services such as identity, moderation, and security, and with third-party sports data and AI providers.

- Set the engineering standard for code review, testing, documentation, and architectural decisions, keeping fast-moving codebases maintainable.

- Partner with product and design to shape roadmaps, turning ideas into technical plans with clear trade-offs.

- Support and onboard new engineers joining the team, and share architecture patterns and AI-native practices across Ventures so each new product starts on proven foundations.

The successful candidate will have 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including taking consumer products from 0 → 1 and operating them in production. They will have deep backend expertise designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems, ideally in Go with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being support

- Opportunities for growth and development

- Collaborative and inclusive work environment

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- gRPC
- Protocol Buffers
- scalable distributed systems
- event-driven architectures
- real-time architectures
- message streaming
- durable workflow engines
- data modelling
- relational databases
- document databases
- in-memory stores
- cloud infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- infrastructure as code
- observability
- AI coding agents

### Nice to have
- SwiftUI
- Kotlin with Jetpack Compose
- React
- LLM-powered product features
- agentic product features

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