Systems Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ UFC
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EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands 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 UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC 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 Systems Software Engineer, you will help us build the engine and platform technology supporting gameplay, animation, rendering, online, front end, and tools. You will solve performance-sensitive problems, own scoped features, and partner with UFC teams.
You will work in a hybrid model, spending three days per week at our EAV Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia, reporting to the Senior Software Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain our shared engine, platform, automation, and release systems.
- Help our teams design and ship features through reusable technical solutions.
- Improve performance, memory use, load times, stability, and workflows.
- Own assigned systems from implementation through testing and delivery.
- Track technical KPIs and collaborate with our franchise and central technology teams.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong C++ skills and experience with large, performance-sensitive codebases.
- Understanding of memory management, multithreading, runtime performance, and platform constraints.
- Experience with game engines or real-time systems.
- Experience delivering systems end to end.
- 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
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
PAY RANGES
* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$104,500 - $142,800 CAD
Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, 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), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
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