Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS FC Mobile Shanghai is a global team devoted to developing and operating a high-quality mobile football game experience. Our quest for creativity, respect for autonomy, and emphasis on collaboration are at the heart of our team culture, which empowers us to create high-quality games and experiences worldwide.

As a team, we are passionate, innovative, and open to possibilities. We learn from past experiences and strive for progress. We value team synergy and believe a relaxed working environment can yield better results. That’s why we promote and support maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

As a Technical Director, you will oversee the game content production and publishing system that powers the live services. You will be a domain expert and engineering architect, drive strategic vision and technical direction, and bring the latest industry experience to the team.

Job Location: You will work in Shanghai, China.

You will report to a senior technical director.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of tools for content production, management, and release pipelines (e.g., CMS, automated publishing systems).

• You will work with stakeholders to understand their use cases, translate them into functional requirements, and ensure end-to-end functionality availability for Live Services.

• You will scout for and evaluate new technology as opportunities for innovation and game development/live service excellence.

• You will collaborate with game dev and live operation teams to identify tooling gaps and streamline content integration.

• You will define uncompromising target metrics and create processes and culture to exceed them.

• You will identify technical risks and mitigation plans.

• You will manage a team of front-end/back-end software engineers.

• You will work with Dev and QA partners to identify areas of improvement through new tools and automation strategies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

• 10+ years of game or large-scale content production industry technical experience.

• 3+ years of software development management experience.

• Strong knowledge of C++/Java programming and Web technologies.

• Broad knowledge of and experience in game development with one of the platforms, mobile, PC, or console.

• Deep domain knowledge and hands-on experience of high-throughput and low-latency live services, personalization, data pipelines, and analytics.

• Broad knowledge of and experience in game systems development, and a master's solid understanding of tech domains: operating systems, network protocols, programming, and profiling skills.

• Strong experience in large-scale distributed server and cloud technologies.

• Experience managing high-traffic, 24/7 services with complex dependencies

• Experience in multi-cloud architectures and large-scale data processing systems

• Proficiency in Test-driven Development techniques (TDD).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins).

• Understanding of software development life cycle, software engineering methodologies and practices, and software quality assurance concepts.

• Good communication skills in English.