Company: Electronic Arts (EA)
Experience Level: Associate / Early Career
About the Role
Electronic Arts is looking for a passionate Associate Software Engineer to join our team, focusing on backend servers and tooling. In this role, you’ll help create and operate innovative games that are played by millions of people around the world. If you’re ready to build high-quality systems for live, large-scale mobile games, you’ve come to the right place.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
- Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to gather and understand requirements.
- Participate in creating technical designs for new systems and features.
- Develop high-quality, clean, and optimized code for our mobile games.
- Implement and manage client-server communications and integrate third-party systems.
- Write and maintain tests to ensure code quality and stability.
- Monitor live game servers, maintain performance, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Profile and optimize code to ensure the best possible player experience.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong experience building PHP applications and APIs, especially in a fast-paced environment.
- Solid understanding of Front-End technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
- Expertise in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and clean coding practices.
- Familiarity with Git for source control.
- Excellent communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
- A genuine passion for building games.
Bonus Skills
- Experience with other version control systems like Perforce or Subversion.
- Knowledge of datastores such as Couchbase, Redis, or MySQL.
- Familiarity with common software design patterns.
- Experience with JavaScript libraries like Vue.js or jQuery.