Games - Server Programmer in London

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Just 13 miles south of Manchester is the attractive market town of Wilmslow, home to the stunning Playdemic studio. Acquired by EA in 2021, Playdemic is known for the top 10-grossing, BAFTA-winning mobile game, Golf Clash. Our award-winning studio space offers conventional desk space, indulgent breakout areas, meeting rooms, and alternative workspaces designed to encourage our team to do their very best work.

The Golf Clash Team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer with a primary background in Server Programming to develop features and technology across our online systems. You will architect and deliver scalable backend features for a live mobile title, own and evolve our CI/CD and deployment infrastructure, and partner with design, production, client, QA and CS to ship high-quality features safely and at pace. This role is located at our Wilmslow-based office, working in a hybrid capacity, including 3 days in office.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software features end-to-end.
• Architect and improve core online systems (game server, multiplayer engine, session and player-data services) for reliability, performance and cost at scale.
• Contribute to selected initiatives to ensure a stable experience for our players (e.g., server evaluation/prototyping, infrastructure improvements, technical debt reduction).
• Review and break down pre-production features, shaping architecture and sequencing to de-risk delivery across client, backend and infrastructure.
• Create and maintain dev/prod/QA environments that mirror live, allowing smooth testing and predictable releases.
• Production deployments and stable GitLab fork merge request approvals, ensuring high-quality standards for code, test coverage and observability before integration.
• Out-of-hours support / incident response, leading mitigation and post-mortems to minimise player impact and improve MTTR.
• Contribute to maintaining our application services, databases, and caches (e.g., DynamoDB, SQL variants, and Redis).
• Build and maintain web-based tools to empower QA and Customer Support.
• Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of internal processes and systems (branching strategy, code review quality, testing frameworks, release practices, on-call health).

Qualifications:

• Server-side engineering in C#/.NET (e.g., ASP.NET, Web APIs) with production experience in live, large-scale systems.
• Experienced with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and caching (e.g., Redis): schema design, query optimisation, data migrations, and operational best practices.
• Hands-on with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab), version control (Git/GitLab flows), infrastructure and hosting (on-prem and/or AWS), and observability (logs/metrics/tracing) for live services.
• Track record designing for performance, scalability, reliability and security, including load/perf profiling and budget setting.
• Ability to plan and deliver complex features; experienced at risk/dependency management, estimation and sequencing.
• Test discipline: unit/integration/system testing, test strategy for domains you own, and test automation to protect critical paths.
• Calm, structured approach to live incidents, leading mitigation, root-cause analysis and improvements.

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life.

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