Software Engineer - IPS

Department Overview

The Infrastructure & Platform Services (IPS) group provides central services that help game teams to tap into the power of the global EA ecosystem. Compatible across multiple platforms and devices, our platform empowers teams to foster deeper, more meaningful relationships with our players. The IPS is the foundation on which EA's games are built. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate into their games, we allow them to focus on making incredible games. These building blocks are made up of high-level service platforms including Cloud Infrastructure, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity and Social.

Main Responsibilities

• Technical Design & Collaboration: Work with product managers to understand business requirements and translate them into secure, scalable technical designs reviewed by key partners.

• Feature Ownership: Lead the end-to-end technical design and implementation of platform features and service capabilities.

• Database & API Design: Design underlying database schemas and robust interfaces (REST/gRPC) to ensure optimal data flow and system consistency.

• AI-Assisted Development: Leverage AI-powered coding assistants and developer tools to accelerate feature implementation, automate repetitive coding tasks, and optimize performance.

• Quality Assurance: Write high-quality, maintainable code with comprehensive unit testing, utilizing AI tools to assist in generating test cases and finding edge cases.

• System Migration: Safely migrate legacy infrastructure and authentication systems to modern cloud platform architectures.

• Production Support & Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot complex live-site issues, fix bugs raised from integration, and proactively resolve customer/player problems.

• Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies—including AI-assisted development workflows—to improve team development velocity and platform capabilities.

• Peer Reviews: Perform rigorous code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure team-wide consistency, architectural alignment, and high code quality.

• Mentorship & Growth: Mentor junior engineers, new hires, and interns, sharing best practices for coding, architecture, and the responsible use of AI tools.

• Team Expansion: Active participant in the technical hiring and interview process to help grow the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience: 1+ years of professional experience in software development.

• Computer Science Foundation: Solid background in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, and distributed systems.

• Language Proficiency: Deep experience with backend development using languages such as Java.

• AI Workflow Experience: Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, or similar IDE assistants) to write, debug, document, and refactor code.

• System Design: Experience designing or architecting components of a large-scale system or online service.

• Live Site Operations: Proven experience in live-site troubleshooting and maintaining service availability.

• Bonus Qualifications: Experience building and running high-throughput, large-scale distributed online services is a big plus.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical major is required.