Senior Software Engineer

United States, San Diego, CA

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Senior Software Engineer, Social  

Location: San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo) 

 

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 the set of client applications. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about full stack and web technologies on both the front end and back end. 

 

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 which 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 the 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 San Diego area. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science plus 5 years of experience or equivalent knowledge 
  • 5+ years of solid programming experience in end-to-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React Native, Java core libraries and web server applications. 
  • Experience with mobile development in iOS (Objective-C/Swift, Xcode) or Android (Java/Kotlin, Android Studio) front-end development. Proficient with Python, Go, scripting, and functional languages. 
  • Experience with modern Java-based frameworks such as Spring Boot or similar technologies to build robust microservices architectures. 
  • Expert level knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high quality and well-architected code. 
  • Collaborated on cloud-deployed services hosting APIs and backend processes talking to data-storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services. 
  • Strong understanding of engineering best practices – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, partake in code reviews and documentation; experience with open source-based technology stack. 
  • Ability to oversee periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests. 

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

Profile (non-technical) 

  • Strong independent problem-solving skills 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a team environment 
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and tackle new challenges. 
  • Works independently with strong work ethic to deliver on critical timelines. 
  • Able to work quickly and efficiently in a challenging environment. 
  • A passion for gaming and a proven record delivering the best possible experiences to players and game partners. 

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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.

$177,300 - $265,900 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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