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Sr Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

EA studios Frameworks team is looking for talented individuals to help us fulfill our mission of providing innovative tools and workflows that enable EA to lead the industry in content quality. With locations across the globe, our group strives to build an ecosystem of modular components that are efficient, adaptable to trends and allow for quick iteration of any artistic idea into reality.

What the Senior Software Engineer will do:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will help lead the effort to refine, optimize and generally improve the ways data is organized, built and iterated on across the different departments involved in making content for our AAA games. The Frameworks team partners with several groups spanning all aspects of asset creation including character and world building, animation, rigging, audio and scanning, with whom we collaborate to bring art for modern games to life. As a leader on the team, your job will be to identify global problems, propose solutions, write software and build technologies that help our partner teams be more efficient in all aspects of asset creation; all with an eye towards common, scalable solutions that work across all groups and titles.

What you do:

• Identify and solve complex, systematic problems in the domain of tools, pipeline and workflow development
• Analyze problem spaces, risks and dependencies across multiple domains and/or toolsets
• Partner closely with end users to understand their workflows and toolset needs
• Use leading edge and pioneering work to advance EA’s technologies
• Gather requirements across large efforts that span multiple teams, locations and disciplines
• Architect tool design, implementation and debugging
• Define, communicate and implement coding standards across team and projects
• Mentor junior team members

Who you are:

• You have these technical skills
  • Expertise in C# development with working knowledge of .NET, and WPF
  • Working knowledge of C++ utilized in large scale projects
  • Understanding of UI, UX Concepts
  • Experience in tool development - including content creation packages, world editing tools, 2D and 3D art content pipelines, art importers/exporters, automated content/data build systems and GUI development.
  • Experience architecting and developing large-scale design
  • Working knowledge of large Relational Databases
  • Promote code quality through unit-testing, code-review and automation
  • Ability to analyze and improve workflow to enhance group productivity
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and hands-on experience
• You have these soft skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative interdisciplinary team environment
  • Creative mindset with focus on how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
  • Working with Content creators.
  • Ability to quickly learn concepts and principles and apply them to new and existing solutions
  • Demonstrate dependability and reliability to complete projects/tasks

Bonus if you have:

• Exposure to unit testing frameworks
• Experience with build systems and concepts
• Experience with Agile (Scrum) development methodologies
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python
• Experience in Animation pipelines for large scale projects
• Experience with Houdini and procedural solutions
• Experience with Web Development, Service Development, Cloud architecture

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, RRSP company match and, of course, many other perks! And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that is powered by creativity and individuality.

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.