Senior Software Engineer, Desktop Application

About the position

Battle.net is looking for a versatile software engineer to build the next iteration of the Battle.net application. We're a team of developers, designers, program managers and testers that build a web-based desktop application that is the primary gateway to Activision Blizzard library of games. Our application enables players to easily learn about, purchase, install and launch their favorite games. Millions of players around the world rely on us to ensure they can quickly and easily play their favorite games like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty. Our team strives to make an easy-to-use user interface through collaboration and iteration. Our ideal candidate is passionate about programming intuitive user interfaces, parsing complex business logic and thoroughly testing their code. If that sounds like you, we would love to chat with you! This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems
• Create unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
• Write API documentation for consumption by game developers and other integrators
• Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
• Create technical design documents and other artifacts
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with our live and in-development services

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• High proficiency in C++
• Professional experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with networking and communication protocols such as TCP or HTTP
• Strong verbal and written communications skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with shipping and maintaining desktop applications that support a global user base
• Experience developing APIs for modular software design patterns
• Experience developing Windows or MacOS services
• Experience using native UI frameworks
• Client / Server architecture experience
• Git
• Working on a large existing code base

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job