Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We're a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities.
Infrastructure & Platform Services (IPS) builds and runs the technology foundation for EA's games. Our teams deliver the live services and backend infrastructure that are used to ship, scale, and operate secure, reliable game experiences for millions of players worldwide.
Within this broader organization, the Marketplace Team is growing our new cross-game, cross-platform digital economy platform. This large-scale, always-on collection of Java/Kotlin and GO based services will power EA's network of games. These virtual economies are experienced by tens of millions of monthly active users.
As a Sr. Software Engineer I, you will champion best practices within the engineering team and serve as a mentor to the team.
You will report to the Sr. Engineering Director.
Responsibilities:
You will lead the technical design and architecture of major components in our large-scale distributed backend service, creating new features and updating existing ones
You will build server-side systems that deliver new functionality within the larger Digital Platform.
You will work with product managers to reduce technical debt associated with legacy systems through innovation and automation.
You will work with customers and business leaders to understand customer needs and deliver incrementally on their highest priority features and requirements.
You will spend 40-60% of your time hands-on coding.
Qualifications:
9+ years of experience in software engineering
Expertise in Java, Golang, and Kafka
6+ years of experience working on online services (HTTP via REST) at Internet consumer scale
6+ years of experience working with technologies like AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Expertise with the Software design / architecture process
Experience with DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems (>2 million DAU, hundreds of thousands requests per second)
Technical leadership or mentorship experience
Experience with technologies such as memcache, queuing, and NoSQL in production systems and other OSS tech
Bonus:
Experience with Maven/Gradle
Experience with load testing and system analysis
Experience with other languages such as C++ or C#
Some experience leading or guiding engineers
Experience working with remote teams
Domain experience in economics, commerce, and/or fraud area
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.