Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
The Accounts & Identity team builds highly scalable client and Java based systems that safely connect PlayStation users with the social and entertainment experiences they love. Our services provide customers with always-available unified experiences to enrich the PlayStation ecosystem with simplicity, security, and reliability. Our mission is to provide the highest level of safety, performance and reliability for our customers.
What you'll be doing:As part of our team, you'll develop distributed services, collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, and operations team members to build highly robust solutions. Role responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
- Provide solutions that are simple, maintainable, well abstracted, and with accurate test coverage
- Perform in-depth requirement analysis and design/code reviews with peers
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Problem solve and triage issues including addressing operational incidents
- BS degree in computer science or equivalent with 3+ years of strong hands-on Java (ideally Reactive Java Programming) development experience for backend web services using Spring boot framework
- Must have - Experience developing front end applications using React Native, React Native for Web, React Web
- Must have - Experience with GraphQL including the Apollo Client and GraphQL-compliant server stacks.
- Must have - Experience developing Mobile/Computer Apps targeting iOS, Android and PC environments
- Would like to have – Experience with Swift and Objective C
- Experience developing services built for deployment into AWS EC2 or EKS using Docker
- Experience developing applications on Unix/Linux platforms
- Experience with servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat), JAXRS, Spring, Spring Boot and related technologies.
- Experience developing REST based web services also utilizing JSON and XML.
- Experience with agile development methodologies and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Experience with tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Jenkins, JIRA, Git etc.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results and a proactive approach to overcoming obstacles.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Works well with others at all levels and is effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.
- Passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
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.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
