Systems Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ NHL

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.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love. 

We're looking for a Systems Software Engineer who will maintain a broad view of the game and engine systems and look for ways to improve performance, utility, and capabilities to our players and workflow enhancements to our development team. 

Your 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.

Your 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.