Senior Frontend Engineer, Social Features

Sony Interactive Entertainment; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts for Sony products

Bonus potential

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to design and develop PlayStation features across PS5 and mobile. You’ll bring strong React/React Native skills, experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and an OO design mindset to deliver scalable client applications.

Join a cross-functional team, collaborate with product managers and designers, own key UI components, write tests, and contribute to architecture decisions while mentoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of solid programming experience in end-to-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React and React Native.
• 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.
• Ability to oversee periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.

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.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

React Native

Node.js

OO design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

MVC/MVVM/MVP

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to design and develop PlayStation features across PS5 and mobile. You’ll bring strong React/React Native skills, experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and an OO design mindset to deliver scalable client applications.

Join a cross-functional team, collaborate with product managers and designers, own key UI components, write tests, and contribute to architecture decisions while mentoring