Application Engineer

Electronic Arts Romania, one of the largest tech companies and video game developers in Romania, brings together talented people from diverse work backgrounds and industries all united by a common passion: inspiring the
world to play. If your dream job is to work with cutting-edge technology on some of the most popular video game franchises in the world, including EA SPORTS FIFA or NHL, then you're in the right place. Level up your learning and career development with some of the most talented industry professionals in the gaming world. We’re a diverse, creative, and collaborative group of people united by our shared vision of excellence. If you have a passion for creative storytelling, knowledge of one or more programming languages, an understanding of animation or design techniques, detailed knowledge of gaming and gaming principles, super-attention to detail, or a background in quality control or assessment, then join us creating the future of gaming.

Key Responsibilities and Skills

COMPLEXITY

· Works on problems of moderate scope and complexity

SUPERVISION

· Receives detailed instructions on projects and assignments as assigned and guided by a more senior engineer

BUSINESS IMPACT

· Impacts a project/team on small initiatives; may contribute as part of a team on larger initiatives

INFLUENCE CIRCLE

· Influences internal project team

DECISION MAKING

· Investigates and explores options; informs decisions

· Makes local day-to-day decisions that affect their work

Capabilities – What We Do

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS AND PLANNING

· Reports progress and status through regular email or face to face communication with appropriate leads/managers

SOLUTION DESIGN AND APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

· Understands the application architecture and solution design

APPLICATION BUILD AND SUSTAIN

· Develops solutions as part of the game development application services portfolio that are modular, testable and reliable

· Participates in actions related to the installation and maintenance of production systems

· Discuss and raises issues with project/scrum team

· Participates in service outages & restoration during an incident’s lifecycle

QUALITY ENGINEERING

· Understands business, product, technology requirements

· Designs, writes and executes test cases

· Files and regresses bugs (JIRA)


Capabilities – How We Do It

PRESENTING & COMMUNICATION

· Writes and edits various materials (i.e. wiki, presentations, etc.)

· Presents materials to colleagues and peers

· Provides constructive ideas and feedback to peers

· Communicates clearly with customers, including communicating complex technical problems concisely to technical and non-technical audiences

DELIVERY MANAGEMENT

· Provides effort estimations for assigned work

· Prioritizes and updates their task schedules

· Identifies and voices scheduling issues or conflicts

PROBLEM SOLVING

· Solves problems in project domain

· Participates in root cause analysis and corrective actions

COLLABORATION

· Participates in small cross-discipline collaborative efforts inside of their own domain

· Effectively brainstorms solutions to problems within a group

· Gathers and shares knowledge relating to collaborative efforts

· Works to ensure collaborative decisions are made in a timely manner

TECHNOLOGY ACUMEN

· Ability to learn the tools necessary to build and manage applications used in Game Development

· Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and Cloud services is an asset

· Understanding of networking concepts is an asset; e.g. routing, subnets, DNS, etc.

· Knowledge and experience with Virtual Machines, servers and other related hardware is an asset