Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment –
Location:
San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo)

Sony Interactive Entertainment invites experienced software engineers to join our global team. Play Station products and services enjoy worldwide recognition and provide exciting opportunities for innovation and creativity.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, implement, and maintain full‑stack solutions for Play Station features on Play Station 5, mobile platforms, and other supported hardware. The role emphasizes deep technical expertise, hands‑on experience, and development across the entire software stack.

• Architect and develop complex projects across multiple teams to deliver new, innovative features.
• Develop high‑quality front‑end applications using React Native, ensuring performance standards and production readiness.
• Build and optimize back‑end services for speed, scalability, and responsiveness, hosting APIs to support new and existing features.
• Communicate proactively with collaborators on plans, schedules, and deliverables.
• Architect UI modules for different platforms, prioritizing scalability, maintainability, and architectural patterns such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, and Designers to translate feature requirements into technical solutions.
• Own technology and shareable features across large projects or several smaller projects.
• Produce thorough design, architecture, and development documentation.
• Improve processes, propose guidelines, and drive technical excellence within the team.
• Partner with QA engineers to ensure test coverage and verify test plans.
• Write unit and component tests, focusing on stability, maintainability, and regression prevention.
• Debug issues efficiently and collaborate with the team for resolutions.
• Mentor team members, review pull requests, design plans, and participate in architectural discussions.
• Communicate development strategy and technical subjects to globally distributed teams.

• Must relocate to the San Diego area.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science plus 5 years of experience or equivalent.
• 5+ years of end‑to‑end development experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React Native, Java core libraries, and web server applications.
• Experience with mobile development in iOS (Objective‑C/Swift) or Android (Java/Kotlin).
• Proficient with Python, Go, scripting, and functional languages.
• Experience with contemporary Java frameworks like Spring Boot or equivalent micro‑service architectures.
• Expert‑level object‑oriented design knowledge and passion for writing high‑quality, well‑architected code.
• Experience building high‑performance, cloud‑based scalable web services.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑deployed services hosting APIs, caching layers, event buses, and backend processes.
• Strong engineering procedures: secure, scalable code, unit tests, code reviews, documentation.
• Ability to provide periodic on‑call duty and respond to out‑of‑band requests.

• Strong independent problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and tackle new challenges.
• Independent work ethic and ability to deliver on critical timelines.
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently in a challenging environment.
• Love for gaming and a solid track record of delivering outstanding experiences to players and partners.

• Medical, dental, vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k) contribution.
• Paid time off and wellness program.
• Employee discounts for Sony products.
• Bonus package eligibility.

$177,300—$265,900 USD

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 color, 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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