Electronic Arts creates superior entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, connected globally, where creativity thrives, new perspectives are stimulated, and ideas matter.
The Infrastructure and Platform Services team (IPS) is the backbone of EA's global gaming ecosystem, delivering technology that powers EA's live games and player experiences. IPS provides a deep portfolio of digital platform gaming services and production infrastructure to EA's game studios. From scalable cloud solutions to AI-driven gameplay services, IPS ensures that EA's games are available anytime, anywhere for millions of players worldwide.
The Gameplay Services Team develops services and SDKs in collaboration with EA's game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will build scalable, distributed server-side systems that provide functionality to millions of customers and work on creative improvements to keep systems at top-notch performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console.
- Enhance and add features to existing systems.
- Research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements.
- Optimize performance and scalability of server systems.
- Be part of the full product cycle for products, from design and testing to deployment and supporting LIVE environments and game team customers.
Qualifications:
- 1+ years hands-on experience with Java/Kotlin and Microservices.
- Expertise with relational or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with stress-testing and performance-tuning and optimization.
- Debugging and optimization experience in a multi-threaded environment.
- Experience troubleshooting and mitigating issues in live environments.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, work-life balance, and collective well-being support
- Opportunities for growth and development
- Flexible working arrangements
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and inclusion.
