Développeur.se d’outils / Tools Developer (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 122,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Respawn Entertainment in Vancouver, Montreal, and Chatsworth is seeking a Tools Developer for Apex Legends to design and maintain editors and tooling used by content teams.

You will collaborate with developers, artists and content creators to optimize asset workflows, extend content pipelines, and improve tooling with telemetry-driven decisions. This role supports a hybrid model with on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping games with large, mature codebases.
• Experience building editors and content tooling.
• Strong knowledge of game engines and their toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain editors, compilers, previewers, debuggers and other tools used by content teams.
• Partner with developers, artistic teams to define and streamline end-to-end asset creation workflows.
• Maintain and extend content compilation pipelines, including data validation, baking and packaging for runtime use.
• Fix bugs and reduce technical debt across the content authoring tools suite.
• Diagnose and resolve issues reported by our content creators and dev support team, unblocking their day-to-day work.
• Translate feedback from our content creators into high-quality tool improvements.
• Break down ambiguous development problems in tools into scoped plans, identifying dependencies, risks and relevant tasks.
• Use telemetry and user feedback to prioritize development work and measure the impact of delivered changes.
• Propose and lead initiatives that improve the team's tools architecture and development practices.

Skills

C++

3D math

Editor tooling

Game engines

UI frameworks

Performance optimization

UX principles

Team player service minded

Tools

C#

Python

DCC tools

Job description

Job Title: Tools Developer (Apex Legends)

Location: Vancouver, BC, Chatsworth, CA or Montreal, QC

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days onsite/week)

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty franchise, Respawn was

created with the philosophy that when accomplished people have creative freedom, they'll

make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio

to joining the roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We love

what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide. Our shipped titles

include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star

Wars Jedi series and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Join us for the opportunity to

create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.

You can learn more about our studio and values at https://respawn.com/studio

Respawn is looking for a Tools Developer who is passionate about developing world‑class

tools for Apex Legends, our flagship game! You will have the chance to improve, optimize,

support, and develop new features for our content authoring tools.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain editors, compilers, previewers, debuggers and other tools used by our content teams.
• Partner with developers, technical artists and content teams to define and streamline end-to-end asset creation workflows.
• Maintain and extend content compilation pipelines, including data validation, baking and packaging for runtime use.
• Fix bugs and reduce technical debt across the content authoring tools suite.
• Diagnose and resolve issues reported by our content creators and dev support team, unblocking their day-to-day work.
• Translate feedback from our content creators into high-quality tool improvements.
• Break down ambiguous development problems in tools into scoped plans, identifying dependencies, risks and relevant tasks.
• Use telemetry and user feedback to prioritize development work and measure the impact of delivered changes.
• Propose and lead initiatives that improve the team's tools architecture and development practices.

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ and 3D math skills.
• 5+ years of experience building editors, systems and engines for game development, having shipped game projects with large, mature codebases.
• Strong experience with level design, art, animation and other content workflows in a game engine.
• Familiarity with commercial and proprietary game engines and their toolchains.
• Well‑versed in software development principles and contemporary standards, with solid knowledge of performance optimization techniques and design patterns used in user‑facing applications and game development.
• Experience with UI frameworks and an eye for UX best practices.
• A humble, service‑minded subject matter expert who enjoys being the go‑to person for internal customers and solving issues for them.

Bonus

• Experience working with graphics APIs.
• Experience building tools in C# and Python.
• Experience working with DCC tools

Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

• * British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$122,300 - $170,700 CAD
• * California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$143,800 - $217,200 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full‑time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top‑up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full‑time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.