Software Engineer

Job Description

Software Engineer (ReactJS + NodeJS)

Position Title: Full Stack Engineer

Description/Background

What does the EA IT Employee Experience Engineering Team do?

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The Company's game

franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through

Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more

than 275 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.
Our team, the Employee Experience Engineering group is a new central technology team that is

responsible for designing, developing and maintaining application and data services as well as

enterprise mobile applications that support all employees throughout EA. Our goal is to

produce high quality, reusable, services and web and mobile solutions that help each and

every EA employee do their job and contribute to the goal of EA making the world's greatest

games.

What will you be doing?

You will be responsible for working with the team's solution and technical architects to refine

and implement their designs. On the services side, NodeJS micro services (REST) and cloud
orchestration services. On the web and mobile application side, Angular and Ionic-based

hybrid applications that can be deployed on web, iOS, and Android. The services and

applications need to scale to performantly serve many thousands of users globally.

You will be responsible for writing the technical specifications, coding the services and

applications in a secure and efficient manner, ensure highly performant and defect-free code

through the development of unit and integration tests, leverage the use of continuous

integration systems. You should be familiar with working in an Agile/Scrum model in a modern

DevOps organization.
Our Engineers love to experiment with leading edge technology, dive deep into code and work

as part of a team of programming experts who define and solve big problems and build

powerful automation tools. You must ensure stellar product quality, and provide technical

guidance to Product & Program Managers as they communicate user needs and product

requirements. This role is for a full stack engineer who loves the challenge of building

distributed, high availability, and resilient systems. You should have excellent design and

coding skills in building APIs and have the technical depth in OS (Linux and macOS), hybrid

mobile and cloud programming models.

As a full stack engineer you will be also involved in proof-of-concept for new technology, work

with leads and architects to define technical specification standards, coding and security best

practices.

You will be interacting with product managers, project managers, architects, quality engineers

and infrastructure engineers across the US and other geographies.

Responsibilities
• Work with PMs, Architects, Network and Systems engineers to understand service and

application needs, including build, deployment and management.
• Design and build service catalogs and APIs
• Work with Experience Designers to prototype and build web & mobile applications
• Be able to develop highly available and reliable applications in the cloud.
• Ensure all solutions being developed are well documented with proper technical

specifications, testable and maintainable.
• Write unit tests for automation, and achieve 80%+ code coverage
• Review code via collaborative code-review tools with peers
• Implement monitoring, analytics and telemetry in code development.
• Effectively communicate and coordinate with teams across various geographies, mainly US.
• Effectively communicate progress and issues with engineering and product/project

managers.
• Be able to prototype new technology that fits use cases/problems and validate against

success criteria.

Skills

Must Have
• Top notch JavaScript and General Programming Skills
• Experience developing high performance cloud-based, REST microservices with

latest/recent versions of NodeJS
• Experience developing web applications with modern Javascript frameworks &

packages (examples: React, GraphQL, Redux etc)
• Experience coding JavaScript applications/services using Typescript Object Oriented

Programming.
• Work with various NonSQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) and Cache (Redis,

Redux, Elasticache, Memcache)
• Knowledge of test frameworks like mocha, chai and jest
• Knowledge and working experience with SCSS (preferably Git) and best practices
• Experience with webpack, gulp and/or other build tools
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline and automation (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, Cloudbees)
• Experience developing in cloud technologies, preferably AWS
• Experience instrumenting services/apps code for actionable monitoring and analytics

using tools like Google Analytics and statsd
• Experience working with cross functional teams such as Design and Product teams in

an Agile work environment.

Extra Points
• Experience implementing and integrating with packaged applications (preferably

Employee tools such as Slack, G Suite etc)
• Experience coding in other mainstream languages such as Python, Java, in a services

capacity
• Experience with Serverless Frameworks (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Azure Functions,

etc...)
• Knowledge of/Experience with Hybrid Mobile Apps (Ex, Ionic, React Native)
• Native IOS or Android mobile development experience
• Experience with other cloud technologies is a plus (GCP, and Microsoft Azure)

Qualifications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

experience
• 6to 8 years of engineering/development experience.
• Experience in distributed, network, and systems programming in Linux or macOS

environment
• Experience taking projects from initial spec/requirements through design and implementation,

testing and debugging, documentation, and installation in an Agile environment
• Strong written and oral communication skills are essential
• Ability to stay on top of technology, participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute

ideas to our products and tech stack
• Self-starter with an eagerness to constantly learn and pass/share the knowledge along to the

team.
• Strong sense of ownership/'can do' attitude and high attention to detail
• Experience working in a distributed global team
• Ability to dive into difficult problems and deliver results on time and on spec
• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and problem solving

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