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Electronic Arts (EA) · 2 days ago

Technical Director

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Director

$143K/yr - $240K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

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.

Be the last level in the escalation chain for resolving technical issues.

Qualification

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JavaJ2EESpringSpring BootGRPCLoad BalancingCachingKafkaAWS CloudKubernetesDockerMicroservices architectureUI applicationsJavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularHTMLCSSUI testing frameworksCloud PlatformsOSSCNCF standardsObject-oriented design patternsSQLNoSQL databasesRDSElasticsearchCassandraAmazon SNS

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

Global fitness program

Game credits

Zeta (Food Coupons)

Parental Insurance & Medical

Accident & life insurance

Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)

80 hours per year of sick time

16 paid company holidays per year

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) to temporary full-time employees scheduled to work full time

Company

Electronic Arts (EA)

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We exist to inspire the world to play.

Founded in 1982

Redwood City, California, USA

10,001+ employees

http://www.ea.com

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