DICE Ops: Backend Software Engineer i Stockholm

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning developer based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the successful Battlefield franchise with the widely-acclaimed Battlefield 1 being the latest installment. DICE is also home of the Frostbite Engine, Star Wars: Battlefront, as well as being the creators of Mirror’s Edge.

Role Overview
We – DICE Operations – are looking for a talented and driven person that is passionate about developing software systems for games with millions of users. We are looking for an experienced backend engineer for developing services to support the live operations and online gameplay for our titles.
You will be working in small teams that work closely together to create solutions for game requirements using modern technologies and frameworks deployed to cloud based infrastructure. You will also be working with a large number of existing systems; some developed at DICE, some developed externally. This will require collaborating with a lot of different teams within EA and DICE on a regular basis

What a Backend Software Engineer does at DICE Operations
• Develop distributed, resilient and high-performing back-end services using Scala and other system software languages such as Go
• Collaborate closely with the game development teams to adapt existing systems or create new ones for DICE titles
• Adapt central EA technologies to meet game designs requirements from the game development teams, such as matchmaking
• Leverage modern open-source stacks including Scala and Finagle
• Deploy services on cloud based infrastructure such as Mesos and Kubernetes
• Be responsible for performance testing at the server level and load testing at the service level (using tools such as Gatling)

Requirements
• Experience of large distributed, scalable, robust, high-performing systems
• Knowledge of Scala, Java or other JVM language (Scala is the strong preference here)
• Knowledge of Git, or similar distributed source management system
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery
• Good communication and documentation experience
• Proficient in written and spoken English

Nice to Haves
• Experience with cloud deployment, preferably AWS
• Good knowledge of Linux
• Knowledge of C++ or C#
• Knowledge of Mesos/Aurora or Kubernetes
• Experience with Docker or similar container formats
• Contributions to Open Source projects is a plus.
• An interest in games is advantageous.

General Information
As part of the application process we may ask you to take on a practical work test. The position is permanent and applications will be selected continuously. Apply online with a combined CV and Introduction letter in English.