About the role
General Information
Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Worker Type: Regular Employee
Studio/Department: EA Studios - SPORTS
Work Model: Hybrid
Company Overview
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. EA SPORTS is an iconic brand in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games. The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas, dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play.
Responsibilities
- Work with other engineers to integrate primary technologies and features in a massive codebase, merging modern and legacy designs across multiple hardware architectures.
- Improve memory, load times, and performance.
- Debug a range of defects in development environments.
- Look for ways to increase team efficiency through automation, tooling, or workflow enhancements.
- Contribute to core EA technologies to promote collaborative development efforts.
- Work with technical and non-technical co-workers to create practical designs that meet our players' expectations.
- Work together with a team of Systems engineers in a collaborative environment and report to a team lead.
- Support the team with technical issues and questions.
- Mentor other software engineering team members.
Qualifications
Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.
- 5+ years of C++ development experience.
- Test, debug, and extend other software engineer's code.
- Knowledge of software engineering and architectural design.
- Understanding of memory management, file systems, multi-core processing, and performance.
- Experience with profiling tools to monitor and diagnose issues.
- Experience with build systems, pipelines, and source control.
- Experience with codebases supporting multiple compilers and architectures.
- Experience communicating and collaborating with external team members or teams.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
- Experience integrating and maintaining large-scale systems and legacy codebases, covering multiple disciplines.
- Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Lua, C#).
- Previous experience shipping console products.
- Experience with assembly.
- Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g. coding agents) to rapid prototype, accelerate execution and automate workflows, with the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code.
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
- British Columbia (depending on location): $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
Benefits:
- Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
- Sick Time: 10 days per year.
- Parental Benefits: Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
- Insurance: Extended health, dental, vision coverage, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- Retirement: Retirement plan to regular full-time employees.
- Additional: Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
- Wellness: Holistic approach emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness. Includes mental well-being support and family leaves.
- Perks: Complimentary games.
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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.