CrowdStar is a Glu Mobile studio and now part of the Electronic Arts family. The combination of our talented teams at Glu and EA position us as a leader in the largest gaming category in the world. We are forming a powerful growth engine that will expand our current games and deliver more amazing new experiences across sports, lifestyle, mid-core, and casual for players everywhere. Come join us!

Team Overview

At our CrowdStar studio, we believe that there is a huge opportunity in interactive entertainment products and CrowdStar’s goal is to build products which engage, enrich and empower users. With our two top grossing titles, Covet Fashion and Design Home, CrowdStar has developed new ways for players to enjoy fashion and design. Not only are we changing how user's play, we’re also changing how they discover and shop for everything from clothing to home decor. As a team, we are passionate not only about creating fun and engaging games and enriching lives outside of the game.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Tools Engineering team and play a critical role in supporting our newly announced title, Table & Taste. You will work across disciplines to develop and support applications and game features, build pipelines, and a wide array of client and backend developer tools. Above all, you should have a passion for making tools that improves productivity and make work easier for your colleagues. Collaborate on and promote a thriving company culture that features fun, happy hours, social events, and game jams/hack-a-thons.

Responsibilities:

• Build, integrate and support a wide set of development, pipelines and administrative tools
• Work closely with backend engineers to create build pipelines and automation
• Create logging, performance and monitoring tools for backend and client
• Produce reliable estimates for tasks, and be able to propose alternatives to save on implementation time
• Contribute to and uphold good production processes and coding practices
• Ready to learn new technologies and work across development lanes

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of PHP, JS, HTML and CSS development experience in a fast-paced environment with short project deadlines
• Strong experience maintaining source code and automating in GitLab
• Expertise building web-based tools
• Experience building desktop or native application tools
• Experience with toolsets used for profiling and optimizing backend and client systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and problem-solving skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Passionate about games that will be played by millions around the world

Bonus Points

• Expertise building layout and localization tools
• Prior experience working in a gaming company
• Experience with Unity/C#
• Expertise on creating/integrating performance and monitoring tools

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more!

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