The EA SPORTS UFC franchise brings the spectacle and intensity of MMA to tens of millions of players worldwide. As our team pushes to build the world’s best fighting game, online play is a cornerstone of how fans compete, connect, and celebrate real-world UFC moments.

As an Online Software Engineer, you will help build the systems that power our connected experience: matchmaking, social features, live events, progression, and cross-platform play serving hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. Your work will shape how players interact, form communities, and enjoy UFC together.

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

• Design and deliver online features that let players compete, connect, and stay engaged across platforms.

• Work across client, backend, and data systems to ship premium live-service features tied directly to real UFC moments.

Engineering Excellence at Scale

• Architect scalable, efficient, and resilient systems capable of supporting global live-service demands.

• Ensure stability and performance during peak concurrency, while improving workflows that enable fast, safe live updates.

Collaborate Across Domains

• Partner with designers, engineers, producers, and content creators to build authentic, high-quality online experiences.

• Integrate platform services and shared technologies in collaboration with internal teams and external partners.

Innovate & Evolve

• Iterate using live data and player insights, keeping the experience fresh, relevant, and rewarding.

• Explore and apply AI-driven tools to improve development efficiency, automation, testing, and operational workflows.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience building online games or scalable distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency in C++, with confidence working in large-scale, real-time codebases.

• Experience with database technologies such as SQL and/or NoSQL.

• Practical understanding of networked systems, including client/server architectures, service integration, latency tradeoffs, and multithreaded environments.

• A collaborative mindset, with the ability to break down complex problems into clean, maintainable solutions.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Experience developing online features for console platforms.

• Experience or curiosity around using AI tools to accelerate development, testing, or live operations.

• Familiarity with live-service games or high-concurrency online systems.

Why Join Us

As part of the UFC Online Engineering team, you’ll:

• Shape connected gameplay experiences enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.

• Build systems that power massive concurrency, cross-platform play, and live events.

• Tackle diverse challenges—from matchmaking and social systems to backend services and live integrations.

• Collaborate with top-tier engineers across the studio and across EA.

• Grow in an environment that values innovation, quality, and real player impact.

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