The EA SPORTS UFC franchise delivers the spectacle, intensity, and authenticity of MMA to tens of millions of players around the world. As the team strives to build the greatest fighting game in the world, online play sits at the heart of how fans compete, connect, and grow together.

As an Online Software Engineer, you will help design and build the systems that power our connected experience: social features, matchmaking, live events, progression systems, and cross-platform interactions enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of players concurrently. Your work will directly influence how players challenge each other, support each other, engage with real-world UFC events, and build lasting communities.

If you’re passionate about scalable systems, live-service gameplay, and building meaningful social features for a global audience, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.

You will be working on a hybrid model, 3 days a week out of our EAV Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Your Impact

Build the Connected UFC Experience

• Develop and extend online game features that enable players to play together, socialize, compete, support each other, and track shared accomplishments across platforms.
  
  

• Implement systems that help deliver an authentic, premium live service experience aligned with UFC events, fighter moments, and seasonal content.
  
  

• Work across the full stack: client, server, backend services, online workflows, and databases.

Engineering Excellence for Scale

• Build solutions that are scalable, efficient, robust, and sustainable, supporting massive concurrency across global regions.
  
  

• Ensure online systems remain stable, performant, and maintainable throughout development and live service updates.
  
  

• Solve complex real time multiplayer and networking challenges that elevate competitive play.

Collaborate Across Domains

• Partner closely with gameplay, modes, operations, production, design, and QA to ensure online systems integrate seamlessly with the overall experience.
  
  

• Work with central technology groups, engine teams, and external partners to leverage shared services and maintain high quality standards.
  
  

• Collaborate with backend and platform teams to build secure, extensible, cross-platform systems.

Innovate & Evolve

• Iterate on live features, workflows, and tools based on real-world player behavior and operational insights.
  
  

• Explore ways to use AI-assisted tools to improve development workflows, automation, validation, or player-facing systems.
  
  

• Contribute to new ideas for social engagement, matchmaking, progression, live events, and online play incentives.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer developing online games or scalable online applications.
  
  

• Strong proficiency in C++ and comfort working in large, real-time codebases.
  
  

• Experience working with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
  
  

• Practical understanding of networked systems: client/server models, service integration, latency considerations, and multithreaded environments.
  
  

• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and break down complex problems into clean, maintainable solutions.
  
  

• Passion for building engaging online and social features for players.
  
  

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Experience with first party platform services and APIs (PSN, Xbox Live).
  
  

• Experience or interest in using AI tools to accelerate development, testing, or operations workflows.
  
  

• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Lua) or backend service stacks.
  
  

• Familiarity with live-service games or highly concurrent online systems.

Why Join Us

As part of the UFC online engineering team, you will:

• Shape connected gameplay experiences enjoyed by millions of players
  
  

• Build systems that support massive concurrency and cross-platform play
  
  

• Work on a wide range of online challenges: player facing features, matchmaking, social systems, progression, backend services, tools, analytics, live ops workflows, and more
  
  

• Collaborate with talented developers across the studio and across EA
  
  

• Grow your career by contributing to one of EA’s most ambitious connected experiences
  
  

If you’re ready to help build the online backbone of a globally loved franchise, we’d love to hear from you.

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

In British Columbia, we 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.