Gameplay Engineer (Apex Legends)
Electronic Arts4 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Partner with designers to develop, prototype, iterate, and polish gameplay features.
- Implement and maintain reliable, performant, scalable, and maintainable gameplay systems.
- Develop player-facing systems, weapons, abilities, and mode-specific features.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, artists, animators, QA, production, and external partners to deliver integrated features.
- Investigate and resolve bugs, regressions, edge cases, and gameplay issues across a large codebase.
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, engineering standards, workflows, and shared gameplay technology.
- Provide technical feedback and implementation guidance to other engineers while communicating tradeoffs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development engineering experience on gameplay teams.
- Experience shipping multiplayer video game titles.
- Experience working on live-service video game titles.
- Experience working with a large codebase and managing and improving performance and budget.
- Advanced C++ and C skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
Benefits
- US benefits include paid time off, sick time, company holidays, paid bonding leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k) for regular full-time employees.
- Canada benefits include vacation, sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits for parental leave, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs; additional offerings may include mental well-being support, complimentary games, and career and community wellness programs.
Tech Stack
CC++
Categories
Gaming
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.