Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL. The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love. 

A UI Software Engineer will develop the technology, tools, and frameworks that form the user interface, and will work in a dynamic team to develop new features every year.  As a lead, you will report to a technical director, and guide other UI engineers on technical vision and execution, and support the design and building of components that bring our features to life.  Above all, we are looking for someone that is excited to use their talent and experience to deliver high-quality user interfaces in a AAA game.

You will work in a hybrid model, with 2 days at home and 3 days onsite at our studio in Burnaby.

Your responsibilities as an engineer:

• Design new features or additions to existing features.

• Work with designers to gather requirements and propose solutions.

• Implement a feature's logic, game flows, and screens.

• Collaborate with a large team of other engineers.

Your responsibilities as a lead:

• Guide a team of internal and external UI engineers.

• Establish and enforce best practices for UI development.

• Drive the design and implementation of new technologies, features, and workflows.

• Plan improvements for existing technologies, features, and workflows.

• Monitor and enforce performance and associated metrics.

• Collaborate with other engineering groups, artists, and designers.

• Partner with project managers to scope and schedule engineering work.

• Manage engineering recruitment, appraisals, and goal setting.

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years of C++ software development.

• 1+ years of technical leadership experience.

• Knowledge of data-driven and object-oriented design.

• Knowledge of design patterns, such as MVVM.

• Proficiency with debugging and profiling tools.

• Experience with version control systems.

• Experience architecting and implementing complex systems within a large codebase.

Bonuses:

• Familiarity with scripting languages.

• Experience with large-scale game engines (especially Frostbite).

• Experience with cross platform and console development.

• Experience shipping UI code for a AAA title.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec. 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS 

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). 

PAY RANGES

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.