Developer Experience Technical Director (Apex Legends)
Electronic Arts2 days ago
Base Salary
$193k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives that improve developer productivity, iteration speed, and workflow reliability.
- Define and execute technical strategies for CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated testing, and developer infrastructure.
- Develop local build, testing, and validation workflows that let developers independently verify changes before submission.
- Design scriptable development workflows and source-control/workspace strategies for concurrent development while maintaining live-game stability.
- Partner with Build & Release, Quality Engineering, and development teams to improve build, testing, and validation workflows.
- Design and implement tools, automation, and self-service capabilities that eliminate repetitive work.
- Establish productivity metrics and feedback loops, technical architecture, standards, and best practices for developer workflows.
- Identify technical risks, resolve cross-team dependencies, drive engineering alignment, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience, including experience as a Technical Director or equivalent.
- Experience developing and maintaining custom game engines and associated development tools.
- Strong experience with Perforce, including depot architecture, branching strategies, and Streams.
- Experience designing, implementing, or improving CI/CD systems and developer infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering, system architecture, and technical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to identify opportunities, establish technical direction, and drive complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred: experience supporting a live-service AAA game for at least 12 months.
- Preferred: two or more shipped AAA titles.
- Preferred: experience with automated testing and validation systems, local development environments, build orchestration, parallel development workflows, and workflows for engineers, designers, artists, and QA.
- Preferred: strong mediation, conflict resolution, and consensus-building skills.
Benefits
- US benefits include paid time off, sick time, paid company holidays, parental bonding leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) benefits for regular full-time employees.
- Canada benefits include vacation, paid sick time, parental and adoption leave top-up, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement benefits for regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programs.
- The role is listed with compensation ranges of CAD 169,500–242,600 in British Columbia and USD 193,100–296,500 in California.
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About Electronic Arts
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