Systems Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ NHL
Electronic Arts2 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Integrate technologies and features into a large codebase spanning modern and legacy designs and multiple hardware architectures.
- Improve memory usage, load times, and software performance.
- Debug defects in development environments and test, debug, and extend other engineers’ code.
- Develop automation, tooling, and workflow enhancements to improve team efficiency.
- Contribute to core EA technologies and collaborative development efforts.
- Design practical solutions with technical and non-technical coworkers.
- Support the Systems engineering team with technical issues and questions.
Requirements
- 3+ years of C++ development experience.
- Knowledge of software engineering and architectural design.
- Understanding of memory management, file systems, multicore processing, and performance optimization.
- Experience using profiling tools to monitor and diagnose issues.
- Experience with build systems, pipelines, source control, multiple compilers, and multiple architectures.
- Experience integrating and maintaining large-scale systems and legacy codebases across multiple disciplines.
- Experience with Python, Lua, C#, and assembly.
- Previous experience shipping console products.
- Experience communicating and collaborating with external team members or teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as coding agents to prototype, accelerate execution, and automate workflows, with the ability to validate generated code.
Benefits
- British Columbia employees receive 3 weeks of vacation per year to start and 10 days of sick time annually.
- Benefits include extended health, dental, and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Parental, maternity, and adoption leave includes paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary, subject to stated limits.
- Some roles may be eligible for bonuses and other incentive programs.
- EA offers wellness programs, paid time off, family leaves, retirement savings, mental well-being support, and complimentary games.
About Electronic Arts
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