Software Engineer III

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 III 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 Technical Director.

 

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

• 8+ 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.