Electronic Arts

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Developer, AI & Tools (Apex Legends)
 
Location: Vancouver, BC or Montreal, QC
 
Work Model: Hybrid (3 days onsite/week)

Respawn is looking for a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools to build and design various tooling for Apex Legends game and to explore opportunities enabling AI automation driven workflow integrations within the tools.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools you will report to Lead Developer of our Shared Tools team and will work with content / technical / product directors and the tools development team to design, build and enable tools with AI.

You will also partner with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver extendable tools that support content creation workflow and are performant and robust to support a live game. 

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain tools and pipelines supporting a live game
• Identify opportunities for AI tools integration, prototype integrations and architecture and develop AI enabled solutions
• Connect models to internal tools, APIs, and databases to execute complex, multi-step agentic workflows
• Own multi-disciplinary technical initiatives from design, user testing to release to internal customers
• Optimize memory, CPU and performance of new and existing tools
• Debug and resolve complex issues in a large scale codebase
• Integrate platform and partner technologies into the game engine
• Collaborate with content teams on feature development
• Mentor developers through code reviews and technical guidance

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing, building, deploying, and scaling enterprise-grade online applications supporting a game engine/live service
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, and foundational models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source weights)
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; experience with modern JavaScript frameworks is highly preferred
• Solid understanding of at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Python, Node.js, C#) and RESTful API design.
• C/C++ experience is highly preferred
• Familiarity with UI workflows and UI authoring frameworks
• Experience working in large, shared codebases
• Deep understanding of system design, microservices architecture, design patterns, and scaling high-traffic systems
• Experience with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Good knowledge of at least one version control system (Git/Gitlab/Perforce) and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of computer science foundations

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with DCC tools
• Shipped at least one AAA game on console or PC is highly preferred
• Experience shipping and supporting a live service game
• Experience with automated testing, or build systems