Description
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity.
Join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom. As a Server Software Engineer, you will be part of the game creation process, including architectural design, implementation, and debugging on multiple platforms,working on complex problems with Designers, Artists and other Engineers in domains including rendering, gameplay, audio, user interface, online, physics, databases and tools.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Mixing hands-on coding and release management for large Java projects, using SQL databases.
- Creating and working on large-scale distributed HTTP-based backend services creating new features and updating existing ones.
- Resolving defects during QA testing, pre-production, production and from the live environment.
- Working with multiple clients and platforms that use the features you create to complete user-facing experiences.
- Occasional off-hours support for development needs and support of the live environment ensuring our consumer experience is always outstanding.
To succeed in this role, you will need:
- 3+ years of experience developing software in Java.
- 2+ years of experience working on online services/servers (HTTP via REST).
- Strong working knowledge of the HTTP protocol.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL (MySQL preferred).
- Solid communication skills.
- Knowledge of the Software design/architecture process.
- Experience with unit testing (JUnit).
- Experience developing and maintaining large-scale distributed applications.
- Experience with source control systems.
- Experience with IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse.
- Nice to have - experience with GCP.