Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

The Online Software Engineer will help build networked game experiences for a new EA Sports title. We are looking for engineers who enjoy prototyping, planning, implementing, and maintaining amazing new features and technology for a fast paced, action oriented multiplayer open world sports game.

Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager you will work with your Technical Lead to estimate, build and improve projects. You will be focused on delivering excellent game experiences through efficient and effective code, from the customer-facing experience through to the backend services that power those experiences.

*This role will require a Hybrid/Onsite presence in Orlando, FL, Madrid, Spain, or Victoria, BC Canada*

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with diverse partner teams to build and maintain online infrastructure and services that bring our games to life.
• Leverage EA’s Digital Platform technologies to deliver engaging, reliable, and scalable multiplayer and online features.
• Create and maintain client code that supports innovative features and improves multiplayer experiences for players around the world.
• Optimize client and server systems to improve latency, reliability, scalability, performance, and memory usage.
• Contribute to the design and iteration of live system architecture and workflows to improve developer and player experiences.
• Work across the full stack — from user interfaces in the game client to the backend services and databases that power them.
• Writing clean, maintainable, extensible code while helping others to do the same through mentorship and constructive feedback.

Your Qualifications

• Professional experience in software development, with proficiency in C#.
• Familiarity with multi-threaded or concurrent architectures and debugging techniques.
• Experience with or willingness to learn database technologies (e.g., MySQL, SQL, Redis).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience and learning.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset — you enjoy working with others to solve challenges.
• A desire to improve your skill set and help your teammates grow theirs; we succeed together.

Bonus Skills (Not required — we value learning and growth!)

• Experience with networked applications or features (client/server and/or peer-to-peer).
• Familiarity with C++ or an eagerness to learn it.
• Experience working with Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo game consoles.
• Knowledge of network optimization techniques and service reliability improvements.
• Experience analyzing logs and using tools such as Splunk.
• Familiarity with Linux environments.
• Proficiency with Visual Studio and its debugging tools. 

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $115,100 - $161,200 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.