Software Engineer, Java - EA Sports FC at Electronic Arts in Bucharest, Romania

Job Description

This Java Server Engineer role focuses on developing and maintaining the Ultimate Team mode within EA SPORTS FC. Responsibilities include implementing new features, enhancing existing ones, and providing backend functionality for multi-platform clients and internal tools. The role involves working on complex problems related to big data, load, and uptime, collaborating with a large team across multiple EA studios (Bucharest and Vancouver). Hybrid work from the Bucharest office is required. The team is responsible for a live service with multiple platforms (console clients, PC, companion app, web app) working with online services to ensure success.

Good To Have:

GCP experience
Perforce/Git
Apache Maven/Gradle

Must Have:

4+ years Java experience
Microservices (REST APIs)
Unit/Mock testing (JUnit, Mockito)
CI/CD (Jenkins or similar)
MySQL/SQL
Basic Linux/shell commands

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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.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games. After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's biggest football entertainment platform, we are beginning a new era - EA SPORTS™ FC.

About the job

Ultimate Team is a mode within EA Sports FC that lets you build your dream squad, play matches to earn Coins, use the Transfer Market to buy and sell Player Items, and create your Ultimate Team to make your mark on the pitch.

Behind the scenes, Ultimate Team is a live service with multiple platforms (console clients, PC, comp app, web app) working with online services to make the mode a success.

In this context, Java Server Engineers are involved in the server development process from architecture and technical design to implementation, debugging on multiple platforms, working on complex problems (big data, load, up-time, etc.) alongside other Engineers, Designers and Game Producers.

Responsibilities:

You will work on the development of Ultimate Team by implementing new features and maintaining and enhancing existing ones.

The features developed by the Java Server engineers provide backend functionality for multi-platform, user-facing clients, and internal tools within Ultimate Team.

You will collaborate within a large team, both locally and across other EA studios (Bucharest and Vancouver), working Hybrid from our Bucharest Office.

Qualifications: