Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation
Electronic Arts2 days ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture and direction of Ventures products across backend services, cloud infrastructure, web, iOS, and Android.
- Take products from 0-to-1 prototypes through hardening, growth, and production operation.
- Design and operate scalable distributed systems using gRPC, event streaming, durable workflows, real-time delivery, and resilient data architectures.
- Build reusable platform capabilities for social features, predictions, live content, and integration with EA and third-party services.
- Own production environments, deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, cloud costs, and safe staged releases.
- Use AI coding agents as a core development workflow and establish tooling, guardrails, review practices, and AI-native engineering standards.
- Partner with product, design, and client leads on roadmaps, technical plans, API and data contracts, and end-to-end feature design.
- Set standards for code quality, testing, documentation, architecture, maintainability, and onboarding across Ventures.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including taking consumer products from 0-to-1 and operating them in production.
- Deep backend expertise designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems, ideally with Go, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers.
- Experience with event-driven and real-time architectures, ideally using NATS JetStream or Kafka and durable workflow engines such as Temporal.
- Strong data modeling experience across relational, document, and in-memory stores, ideally PostgreSQL, Firestore, and Redis.
- Experience operating production services in the cloud, ideally Google Cloud and Kubernetes/GKE, with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability practices.
- Experience building software with AI coding agents, or strong demonstrable interest in doing so; this is essential.
- Enough web and mobile fluency to architect end-to-end features and review client designs, ideally with SwiftUI, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, and React.
- Ability to own systems end to end, make sound independent technical decisions, and ship user-facing changes safely with feature flags, staged rollouts, and production monitoring.
- Experience with real-time, social, sports, gaming, entertainment, founding-engineer work, or LLM-powered and agentic product features is preferred.
- Strong communication, collaboration, judgment, ownership, adaptability, and knowledge-sharing skills are expected.
Benefits
- Benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, career support, and community wellness programs.
- Electronic Arts supports learning, experimentation, professional growth, workplace accommodations, and an inclusive equal-opportunity work environment.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaGoGoogle CloudgRPCiOSJetpack ComposeKotlinKubernetesPostgreSQLReactRedisSwiftUITerraform
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About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A team where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. Regardless of your role, team, or location, this is a place where everyone makes play happen. Join us.