Electronic Arts

The EA SPORTS UFC franchise delivers the spectacle, intensity, and authenticity of MMA to tens of millions of players worldwide. Our 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.

As a Lead Systems Software Engineer, you will help define, deliver, and evolve the foundational engine and technology systems that enable performance, scalability, and creative freedom across all domains, gameplay, animation, rendering, online, front end, and tools.

This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You’ll work on challenging problems while also taking broad technical ownership, collaborating across teams, and enabling others to succeed.

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

Your Impact

Be the Technical Glue

• Act as a trusted technical partner across the team, helping engineers understand platform capabilities, engine behavior, and system-level trade-offs.

• Enable other domains to design and ship better features by providing guidance, solutions, and shared systems that scale across the game.

Lead Systems & Engine Evolution

• Help define and drive engine, codebase, platform, automation, and release strategies in partnership with technical leadership.

• Drive improvements in performance, memory usage, load times, stability, and developer workflows through well-designed foundational systems.

Own Delivery & Technical Quality

• Take responsibility for the successful delivery of systems initiatives, including planning, risk identification, and execution.

• Define, track, and uphold technical KPIs related to performance, memory, stability, and maintainability across platforms.

• Ensure systems land predictably, scale effectively, and support both development and live service needs.

Collaborate Beyond the Team

• Build strong working relationships with other franchise systems teams and central engine teams, sharing solutions, best practices, and lessons learned.

• Bring insights and improvements back to the team to continuously raise the technical bar.

Your Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work on large-scale or performance-sensitive systems.

• Strong experience with C++ and large, complex codebases.

• Solid understanding of systems-level concepts such as performance, memory management, multithreading, and platform constraints.

• Experience working in or alongside game engines or real-time systems.

• Proven ability to deliver complex technical systems end-to-end with quality and predictability.

• A collaborative, support-oriented mindset with the ability to communicate clearly across disciplines.

Preferred

• Exposure to tooling, build systems, automation, or multi-platform development.

• Interest in growing technical leadership responsibilities and influencing long-term strategy.

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

Why Join Us

• Play a foundational role in a franchise enjoyed by tens of millions of players globally

• Influence nearly every technical domain without being confined to a single feature area

• Help define long-term engine, platform, and systems strategy

• Grow as a technical leader while remaining close to hands-on engineering

• Work with a collaborative, passionate team building one of the world’s premier fighting games

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $119,600 - $167,300 CAD

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.