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Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2017) (102821)
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Redwood City, CA, United States
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The Challenge Ahead:
The challenge ahead is to enable social capabilities within our games. We believe that fundamentally people want to experience and play games with others, and that games are more fun when experienced as part of a team. We want to make it easy for players to find other players they already know as well as create new relationships with people they’ve only just begun to interact with inside a game. We aim to build better recommenders for a variety of different game types to recommend people to teams, friends to people, and opponents to challenge. We want to incentivize users to engage socially and create a sense of community.
You will have the opportunity to learn from and work with a team of talented online services engineers building services that will handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second, and driving player engagement of many of the industries most popular titles. You will learn how to build highly available, performant and reliable services.
Our team works hard and plays hard So you are excited about working on scalable web services, working on games and having fun while doing so, then this team and role is for you.
Responsibilities:
• Create and work on large scale distributed HTTP based backend service creating new features and updating existing ones
• Resolve defects during QA testing, preproduction, production and from the live environment
• Work with multiple clients working on multiple different platforms who use the services and features you create to complete user facing features
Required Skills:
• Working on BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in algorithms, data structures, and software design
• Working understanding of RESTful web services and distributed systems. Experience is preferred.
• Software development experience, writing clean re-useable code, test-driven development, and continuous integration
• Fluency with Java, C++ or C#
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly dynamic fast-paced environment
• Great communication, time-management, and teamwork skills
EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status or veteran status. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law.