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    iTech Post Austin, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Were EAthe worlds largest video game publisher.

    Youre probably familiar with many of our titlesMadden, FC, Apex Legends, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few.

    But maybe you dont know how were committed to creating games for every platformfrom social to mobile to console to give our players that anytime, anywhere access they demand.

    What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your computing genius.

    EAs Digital Platform (EADP) organization is responsible for driving critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global scale, across all divisions and studio teams.

    Technology and engineering leadership at EA is critical to making the industrys best games & services and the EADP team is leading the way to providing cross-platform services that will keep our consumers connected with our games anytime, anywhere with anyone.


    EA has an opportunity for a Technical Director position.

    As a Technical Director, you will be a senior technical member of the central engineering team to design, develop, deploy, and maintain high throughput world class services at global scale for our next generation games.

    EAs network of games caters to tens of millions of monthly active users.

    You'll have the opportunity to build sophisticated platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second and driving the player engagement of many of the industrys most popular titles.

    If you like solving complex computing problems, are a passionate team player and thrive in a fast paced, ever changing development environment this is a great opportunity for you.


    What Would You Do

    Architect, design & build massively scalable services, solutions, platforms & UI components with stellar performance.
    Provide technology roadmap & direction for platforms, products, and features.
    Innovate for simplicity and low maintenance
    Collaborate with distributed cross functional teams and deliver amazing experiences to the players
    Drive technical excellence amongst team members by coaching and mentoring
    Lead and deliver on company wide technology initiatives in partnership with other architects
    Provide accurate estimates on deliverables for yourself and help team on the same
    Identify and mitigate technology risks during early stages of development
    Provide architectural guidance and inputs for Quality Assurance, Load/Performance Testing, Capacity Planning, etc.
    Review design & code for adherence to architecture, security compliance and coding standards
    Institutionalize & evangelize engineering best practices across teams.
    Identify the right choice of tools & technologies for solving the problem to minimize time, money and maximize efficiency.
    The last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues

    Must have Skills

    Bachelor of Technology or Engineering from a reputed institute

    12+ years of experience working in Java, J2EE technologies and 8+ years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems using Microservices architecture.

    Strong command over Spring, Spring Boot, gRPC, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Buses (Kafka etc.), AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and other commonly used tools & techniques for building high performance distributed systems on the cloud.

    Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying high volume, high transaction based, distributed and highly available web applications.

    Hands-on experience in building rich UI applications using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks and libraries (such as React, Angular etc.), HTML and CSS.

    Hands on experience in leveraging UI tools & testing frameworks
    Demonstrated ability to architect distributed applications and services on Cloud Platforms using OSS & CNCF standards.
    Strong Understanding of microservices & event driven patterns
    Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns and design principles
    Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases such as RDS, Elasticsearch and Cassandra
    Experience in Kafka, Amazon SNS, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
    Experience & understanding of DevOps including building CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Jenkins/ Gitlab CI & Kubernetes
    Excellent Troubleshooting & root cause analysis skills
    Superb ability to take high level direction, work through ambiguity and drive to execution in an iterative model.
    Superb ability to translate business requirements into technical design & architecture.
    Ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
    Technology enthusiast, always on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools and technologies for solving problems.

    Highly Desired Skills

    Experience with EKS, Terraform, Helm
    Experience in Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc.
    Experience in building & deploying web applications using service mesh (Istio) leveraging mesh features.
    Experience in Streaming processing technologies Kafka Streams, Flink etc.

    Whats in it for you? Glad you asked

    We love to brag about our great perks like Global fitness program, game credits, Zeta (Food Coupons), Parental Insurance & Medical, Accident & life insurance and since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality.

    At EA, we live the work hard/play hard credo every day.

    Dont Just Play It Create It

    We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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