Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

We're looking for a Systems Software Engineer or someone interested in expanding their knowledge in the Systems area. Our systems engineers maintain a broad view of the game and engine systems and look for ways to improve performance, utility, and capabilities for our players and workflow enhancements to our development team. Above all, we’re looking for an engineer who is excited to use their talent and experience to build AAA quality games.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with other engineers across the game team to integrate, develop and debug core technologies and features in a large codebase, merging modern and legacy designs across multiple hardware architectures.

• Manage and optimize memory, load times, and performance.

• Debug a range of defects in development environments.

• Look for ways to increase team efficiency through automation, tooling, or workflow enhancements.

• Contribute to core EA technologies to promote collaborative development efforts.

• Work with technical and non-technical co-workers to create practical technical designs that meet players’ expectations.

Your Qualifications:

Please note that you do not need to meet all qualifications to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.

• 3+ years of C++ development experience.

• Ability to learn, test, debug, and extend other software engineer's code.

• Knowledge of software engineering and architectural design.

• Understanding of memory management, file systems, multi-core processing, and performance.

• Experience with profiling tools to monitor and diagnose issues.

• Experience with build systems, pipelines, and source control.

• Experience with codebases supporting multiple compilers and architectures.

• Experience communicating and collaborating with external team members or teams.

• Experience integrating and maintaining large-scale systems and legacy codebases, covering multiple disciplines.

• Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Lua, C#).

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.