About the role
Company Overview
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Everyone is part of the story and a community that connects across the globe. The environment encourages creativity, invites new perspectives, and ensures ideas matter. Teams collaborate to make play happen.
Team Mission
In FC Quality Verification Engineering, the mission is to build test automation and AI-powered developer tools that help EA SPORTS FC teams understand game quality. The team partners with development, quality, production, and live operations teams across Vancouver and Bucharest.
Role Summary
As an Engineering Manager in Vancouver, you will lead a team of software engineers building and running these systems. You will combine people leadership with delivery ownership, reporting to the Technical Director.
Responsibilities
- Build and elevate an engineering team. Hire, onboard and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, useful feedback, performance management and career planning.
- Lead technical execution with clear ownership, achievable plans and a sustainable workload across locations and time zones.
- Turn partner priorities into delivery commitments, adapting plans as needs evolve, following through on milestones, and communicating risks, dependencies, and obstacles early to technical and non-technical partners.
- Partner with the Technical Director and engineers to review designs, explain decisions and trade-offs, and resolve technical roadblocks.
- Take initiative to improve engineering practices across design, testing, continuous integration, and operational support using quality, reliability, and adoption metrics.
- Track relevant technology trends and developments, guiding the team in evaluating and adopting AI-assisted workflows and engineering tools.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on engineering and technical team leadership.
- 2+ years of direct people management of software engineers, including coaching, performance management and career development.
- Proven success spearheading the delivery of automation, developer tooling, or comparable platforms, owning prioritization, capacity planning, and complex cross-team dependencies.
- Experience in C#, C++, or Python, software design, testing, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows.
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range
- British Columbia (e.g., Vancouver vs. Victoria): $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
Compensation Factors
Pay offered is determined based on business and candidate factors, including education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs. Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
Benefits (Canada)
- Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start
- Sick Time: 10 days per year
- Parental Leave: Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary (12 weeks for maternity, 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
- Healthcare: Extended health, dental, and vision coverage
- Insurance: Life insurance and disability insurance
- Retirement: Retirement plan
- Additional Perks: Complimentary games, mental well-being support, and various leaves
Corporate Values
Electronic Arts values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. The company adopts a holistic approach to wellness, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community health.
Equal Opportunity
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Employment of qualified applicants with criminal records is considered in accordance with applicable law. Workplace accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by law.