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 tradeoffs.

• Enable other domains to design and ship better features by providing guidance, shared systems, and scalable technical solutions.

Lead Systems & Engine Evolution

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

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

Own Delivery & Technical Quality

• Own the delivery of systems initiatives end-to-end, including planning, risk identification, and execution.

• Define, track, and uphold technical KPIs across performance, memory, stability, and maintainability on all supported platforms.

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

Collaborate Beyond the Team

• Build strong working relationships with franchise systems teams and central engine groups, sharing solutions, best practices, and hard-earned lessons.

Your Qualifications

Required

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

• Strong expertise in C++ and comfort navigating large, complex codebases.

• Solid understanding of systems-level fundamentals: performance, memory management, multithreading, and platform constraints.

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

• A proven ability to deliver complex systems end-to-end with quality and predictability.

• A collaborative, support-oriented mindset, with clear communication 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 curiosity around using AI tools to accelerate development, testing, or operational workflows.

Why Join Us

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

• Influence nearly every technical domain without being locked into a single feature area.

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

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

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