Electronic Arts is the leading interactive entertainment company, powered by innovative technology. We create incredible experiences for millions of players around the world. But what matters most is our people who inspire us, and the world, to play. As we bring new forms of entertainment to people around the world, we need creative, collaborative, diverse and adaptable people to keep making Electronic Arts better.
Electronic Arts is looking for high performing students to join our world-class internship experience. Summer 2023 will be better than ever as we bring all interns together on-site for orientation week and prep students for the future ways of work by offering remote and hybrid opportunities depending on your location. For more information about our Next-Gen Program, visit https://www.ea.com/careers/interns-and-university-graduates
What a Software Engineer Intern does within EPS Social Division at EA:
As a Software Engineer Intern, your primary responsibility will be to work collaboratively with a team of engineers to plan and execute on the software design and architecture of our new systems. Most of your time will be spent developing features and optimizing performance, robustness, and scalability of server systems. You will also spend time working with product managers to innovate new features to support EA’s many games and reduce technical debt associated with legacy systems through innovation and automation. Additionally, you will be a champion for best practices within the engineering team.
Responsibilities:
- Roughly 70% to 85% hands on coding
- Create and work on large scale distributed HTTP based backend service creating new features and updating existing ones
- Resolve defects during QA testing, pre-production, 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
- Architect and design large portions of the software from features to entire applications
- Grow and guide other engineers
- Occasional off-hours support for development needs and support of the live environment helping to ensure our consumer experience is always world class
Qualifications:
- Currently Pursuing BS/BA in Computer Science
- Experience developing object oriented software (preferably in Java/Kotlin)
- Experience working on online services (via REST or gRPC) at internet consumer scale
- Experience working on high traffic services and highly scalable systems
- Experience working with cloud technology and cloud provider services to build SaaS applications
- Use of technologies such as memcached, redis, message queuing, and NoSQL in production systems
- Superb communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process
- Superb ability to take high level direction and know how to execute against it
- Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
- Experience with unit testing (JUnit)
- Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale distributed applications
- Experience with source control systems
Nice to have Skills:
- Experience with one or more scripting languages
- Experience with load testing and system analysis
- Experience with other languages such as Go, C++ or C#
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience with Kubernetes infrastructures and frameworks
US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.
EA has listed the hourly pay ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, degree type (e.g. Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD), what stage you are in your degree journey (i.e. freshman, sophomore, etc.), qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.
HOURLY PAY RANGES
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $30 – $50
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $25 – $35
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $41 – $50
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $30 – $44
• Jersey City, NJ :
º $41 – $50
The hourly pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including 80 hours per year of sick time (prorated based on scheduled hours per week if less than full-time), 16 paid company holidays per year, medical insurance, and 401(k).About EA We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. Electronic Arts 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.