Software Engineer II

Description & Requirements

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 place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

About FC Mobile

EA SPORTS™ FC Mobile is the world’s most played football game on mobile, connecting millions of players across the globe. The Kuala Lumpur EA SPORTS™ FC Mobile team is part of our global development organization and is expanding to take on new challenges and opportunities. We value creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence — believing that great games are built by empowered teams who innovate, share ideas, and learn from one another.

Location & Work Model - Onsite in Kuala Lumpur Tech Stack - MERN, GSAP, Redis, HTML 5 Canvas

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer II on the FC Mobile team, you’ll help shape the technical foundation that powers the world’s most popular mobile football experience. We are seeking a highly skilled Web Fullstack Engineer to design, architect, and maintain high-performance webviews, web-based platforms, and rich media web applications.

You will act as a key technical standard-bearer for the web stack, partnering directly with the Technical Director to propose and refine operational excellence while collaborating with the Lead Engineer to ensure seamless feature execution. This is a pure technical leadership role focusing entirely on technical excellence, architectural design, strict code governance, and hands-on delivery. While you will not be writing canvas code day-to-day, we require a candidate with solid, practical knowledge of HTML5 Canvas systems to effectively guide architecture and enforce rendering performance standards on the team.

This role reports to the Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Operations:

• Technical Excellence & Gatekeeping: Act as a key technical standard-bearer for the web stack. Enforce coding standards, contribute heavily to architecture discussions, and conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure performance, security, and maintainability before shipping.

• KPI Optimization & Advocacy: Proactively analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks. Propose and justify new technical or operational KPIs (including rendering and load performance) to the Technical Director, and help establish the monitoring pipelines to track them.

• Architecture & Graphics Governance: Leverage your architectural knowledge of HTML5 Canvas (2D/WebGL) and GSAP to guide the team in building smooth, high-performance, and lightweight visual elements within embedded mobile webviews.

• Scalable Web Architecture: Design and develop robust web systems built on the MERN stack, focusing on database efficiency, caching via Redis, and ultra-low latency under high-concurrency, live-service loads.

• Pre-Development Risk Assessment: Partner with product owners and technical stakeholders during the planning phase to assess technical risks, evaluate implementation feasibility, and outline mitigation strategies before coding begins.

Delivery Collaboration:

• Lead Engineer Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Lead Engineer to align on execution plans, technical task breakdowns, and high-impact feature delivery.

• Technical Execution: Provide accurate technical complexity estimates, de-risk execution paths, and take hands-on ownership of coding the most complex, high-traffic backend/API and frontend components.

• Mentorship & Guidance: Provide day-to-day technical mentorship and hands-on guidance to SE I and SE II engineers, helping elevate the technical bar across the team.

Qualifications

Core Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a solid history of delivering robust web systems.

• Strong, production-proven experience with React.js and Node.js (MERN stack).

• Experience conducting thorough code reviews, establishing best practices, and mentoring junior/mid-level developers to maintain high code quality.

• Exceptional debugging, performance-profiling, and troubleshooting skills across both frontend and backend layers.

• Strong communication skills with a track record of partnering successfully with Lead Engineers, Product Owners, or Technical Directors to align on technical directions.

• Exposure to scaling web applications, including using caching strategies with Redis or handling high-concurrency environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience developing and optimizing web pages to run smoothly inside mobile webviews or resource-constrained mobile browsers.

• Familiarity or prior experience with HTML5 Canvas (2D/WebGL) and animation libraries (like GSAP or PixiJS) is a major advantage.

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About Electronic Arts

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. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.