Senior Software Engineer - Gameplay & Experience
Electronic Arts19 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$165k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain performant, stable, and engaging gameplay features.
- Align feature implementations with core engine architecture and technical strategy.
- Refine user-journey requirements with engineering and gameplay guidance.
- Implement telemetry and analytics integrations for feature visibility and tracking.
- Contribute to engine, content, agentic, and research initiatives that produce scalable solutions.
- Identify gameplay technical risks, blockers, and architecture pitfalls and provide mitigation plans.
- Create wireframes and automated test suites for gameplay systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience with AAA game engines such as Frostbite, Unity, Unreal, Godot, or proprietary engines.
- Experience with large C++ codebases and implementing or designing gameplay features.
- Proficiency in one or more gameplay domains, including character, camera, controls, UI, audio, lighting, animation, shaders, VFX, ray casting, splines, or physics fundamentals.
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar areas of large codebases and become productive in tools, pipelines, or runtime systems.
- Experience collaborating to turn product vision and research goals into production-ready engine features.
- Experience with design tools such as Miro and Figma.
- Experience contributing to engine architecture or developer-facing platforms.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab and version-control tools such as Perforce or Git.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three onsite days per week in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver.
- US benefits include paid time off, sick time, company holidays, paid parental bonding leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k).
- Canada benefits include vacation, sick time, parental and adoption leave top-up, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan.
- Regular full-time employees may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
- EA supports career growth, learning, experimentation, and physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A team where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. Regardless of your role, team, or location, this is a place where everyone makes play happen. Join us.