Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Location: Los Angeles, CA

 

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across a set of client applications. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies.

 

Role Responsibilities

• Architect and develop complex projects across multiple teams and fields to deliver new and innovative features.
• Develop and maintain high quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards.
• Extremely proactive and independent, communicating with all relevant stakeholders on plans, schedules, and deliverables.
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, and Designers to understand feature requirements, define technical requirements, and develop new features.
• Will have ownership of technology, common shareable features across a large project or on several small projects.
• Produce excellent, thorough design, architecture, and development documentation.

•       Focus on quality and strive to improve processes, propose standard methodologies, and drive their usage within the teams.
•       Partner with QA engineers to ensure test coverage and verify test plans that help deliver high quality features.
•       Write unit tests and component tests for features with key characteristics of stability and maintainability that prevent regressions in the product code.
•       Efficiently debug issues raised by internal and external users and work with the team to provide resolutions to these issues.
•       Support and mentor other team members and provide technical leadership by reviewing pull requests, design plans, and participate in architectural discussions.
•       Communicate on development strategy, technical subjects related to software development frameworks and collaborate effectively with the globally distributed teams to achieve business goals.
•       Ability to understand, discuss and improve specifications to enhance the overall experience for players and game studio partners.

 

Required Qualifications

 

• Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 
• 5+ years of solid programming expe