Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Work model: hybrid/on-site at the Vancouver, Great Northern Way office

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

At our core, Electronic Arts is a game maker that connects hundreds of millions of players from around the globe to some of the world's greatest games. Pivotal to that connection is the content we create for our planned marketing campaigns. Our content demands are increasing and with it, the requirement to streamline our Digital Asset Management systems, connecting EA teams and systems with the content they need for delivery to channel.

Reporting to the Product Owner, your role will be to develop new UIs and features within our custom-built Digital Asset Management system which enable our content to be easily found by relevant teams and to unlock new content tagging and sharing opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Product team in bringing feature plans to life, ensuring that our key application principles are adhered to
• Collaborate with backend development to create simple solutions for complex problems
• Collaborate with backend development to interoperate with other systems and tools for content creation, tagging and delivery.
• Spearhead the deployment of new features and ensure that our code and repo guidelines are followed
• Design and leverage relevant services to ensure that all features are able to scale with future demand
• Design systems and RESTful APIs, contributing to technical design and reviews, reviewing as necessary with EA’s security team on new data and system connections.
• Participate in data modelling exercises to ensure data is modelled for most efficient retrieval
• Creation of unit tests to ensure code quality
• Drive quality and efficiency in our development work
• Complete and continue the documentation and diagramming of all frontend services and interactions
• Stay updated with trends and technologies in frontend development and emerging technologies, embracing and advocating for AI-driven software development assistant tools.
• Collaboration with our Content Librarian team and Product Insights to understand and address usage or gaps of existing features
• Maintain and expand upon reusable components and design systems, ensuring consistent styling and functionality across the application
• Conduct usability tests in partnership with Product Managers, when necessary, to ensure the best user experience.

 Qualifications:

• Proven enterprise experience as a Frontend Software Engineer with 5+ years of programming experience
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and workflows
• Experience using TypeScript
• Ability to develop new features based on HiFi and LoFi UX/UI designs and existing design components
• Experience working in a microservices-driven environment
• Experience with Strapi CMS is advantageous
• Experience in the secure AWS storage and retrieval of keys and credentials
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc

BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. 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 base salary 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, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):
º $115,100 - $161,200 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.