Java Server Engineer-Bioware Social

Role Description

The BioWare Label is a division of EA which crafts high quality multiplatform role-playing, MMO and strategy games, focused on emotionally engaging, rich stories with unforgettable characters and vast worlds to discover. Since 1995, BioWare has created some of the world's most critically acclaimed titles and franchises, including Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. BioWare currently operates in eight locations across the world, including Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Montreal (Quebec, Canada), Austin (Texas), Fairfax (Virginia), San Francisco (California), Los Angeles (California), Sacramento (California) and Galway (Ireland).

What happens when you take BioWare’s blockbuster, critically acclaimed titles—like Baldur’s Gate, the Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dragon Age and Mass Effect--and reconceive them for social gaming? You get an entirely new experience on the gaming scene. And BioWare Social is the studio leading the charge for this emerging venture for BioWare. At BioWare Social, we’re focused on translating the emotionally engaging, rich stories, the unforgettable characters and vast worlds that captivate our console consumers into equally compelling social games that can be played across all platforms. It’s a fast-paced and creative environment where designers, engineers, producers, artists and others come together to create fun for anyone, anywhere!

As a Java Server Engineer in a dynamic and expanding development team you will be helping take our social gaming services to the next level. You will participate in design and development of exciting features within a small team using an agile methodology. Our ideal candidate is a web services ninja with deep Java expertise. You've written customer-facing APIs and scaled them to thousands of requests per second. You're passionate about new technology and systems architecture. You know when to choose SQL, MongoDB or Cassandra. You're excited about small teams, fast-paced environments, games and social media. This position will be located in Sacramento, CA.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a suite of shared services to power large-scale, web-based and mobile games
• Help design, develop, test and implement quality code and tools
• Write server-side code for distributed, cloud-hosted systems  
• Design and expose APIs for developers to build against

Requirements

• Java, Spring, Web 2.0, AJAX, Javascript experience
• Excellent oral and written communications skills  
• Passion for games and social media 
• Understanding of how to improve performance, scalability and fault-tolerance of systems
• Experience running mission-critical applications at scale
• Education: Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent industry programming experience  
• 5+ years of professional programming experience
• 2+ years experience with large, scalable client/server web services
• Demonstrated experience with NoSQL databased Pluses
• Experience with git version control system
• Google App Engine, AWS, and experience with NoSQL database systems
• PHP, MySQL, LAMP, RESTful
• Experience or an interest in mobile technologies/languages (e.g. iPhone, C++, Android, etc)
• Interest and competence in data mining and analysis