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Sr. Software Engineer - Front End

United States, Los Angeles, CA

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Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Los Angeles, CA

Passionate about data-driven insights and being part of a team that builds scalable telemetry solutions that impact millions? We are seeking a motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the team that creates common telemetry libraries used by engineering teams across all PlayStation platforms, including the PlayStation 5, console, web, and mobile. The position is a hands-on engineering role for someone who likes to work with other hard-working engineers in a fast-paced, inclusive, and engaging environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the PlayStation Telemetry team, you’ll play a key role in shaping feature requirements, crafting scalable proposals, and implementing solutions end-to-end. You’ll collaborate with motivated engineers and team members across global time zones to help power the data behind PlayStation’s gaming experiences.

Responsibilities:

  • Define requirements and deliver major features for shared libraries and services across the PlayStation ecosystem, with clear, user-focused documentation to support ease of use and developer experience.
  • Collaborate across PlayStation teams to understand diverse architectures to build and integrate features into shared libraries
  • Define and deliver evaluation criteria for testability, scalability, and performance of new features and improvements. Maintain stability, performance, and quality of the codebase by applying development standards while using automation to support internal CI/CD workflows.
  • Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to work on diverse projects, involving picking up new programming paradigms. Write clean, scalable solutions that align with a wide variety of use cases.  
  • Work independently and mentor junior engineers. Provide detailed peer review feedback for all team members. Understand existing development and testing processes and identify improvements to support the team and product.
  • Exercise creative problem solving capabilities and collaborate with other teams and engineers to define a path forward.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related experience or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Highly proficient in developing high-performance JavaScript code, with understanding of SPA/front-end frameworks such as React, React Native, or similar
  • Experience collaborating with multi-functional partners outside your domain, especially with product, design, quality, and server engineering
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum software development methodologies

Bonus Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Jenkins or any CI/CD tools
  • Experience writing documentation for cross-platform applications.

This position will be based in the Playstation office in Madison, WI! We are located in the heart of downtown right on the Capitol Square with an outstanding view of the east side and many phenomenal restaurants and social opportunities right outside the door. We have a very flexible work from home policy: live close enough to the office for occasional in-person meetings and events, otherwise work in the office as much or as little as preferred! Although your home base will be Madison, the team includes members from multiple PlayStation offices - strong abilities to collaborate in a hybrid environment is a must.

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 

In addition, this role
is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

 

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$156,400 - $234,600 USD

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