Développeur.se sénior.e /Senior Full Stack Developer (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks

Sick time 10d

EI/QPIP top-up

Health/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Electronic Arts (EA) is seeking a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI & Tools to design and build tooling for Apex Legends. Hybrid work in Vancouver or Montreal with 3 days on-site per week, reporting to the Shared Tools lead.

You will partner with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver AI-enabled workflows and robust live-game tooling. Responsibilities include designing pipelines, integrating AI, optimizing performance, and mentoring teammates as part of a dynamic, large-scale codebase.

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing, building, deploying, and scaling enterprise-grade online applications supporting a game engine/live service.
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and foundational models.
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; experience with modern JS frameworks.
• Solid understanding of at least one server-side language and RESTful API design.
• C/C++ experience is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with UI workflows and UI authoring frameworks.
• Experience in large, shared codebases.
• Deep understanding of system design, microservices, and scaling high-traffic systems.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Knowledge of version control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong CS foundations.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain tools and pipelines supporting a live game.
• Identify opportunities for AI tool integration and prototype solutions.
• Connect models to internal tools, APIs, and databases for multi-step workflows.
• Own multi-disciplinary technical initiatives from design to release.
• Optimize memory, CPU, and performance of tools.
• Debug and resolve complex issues in a large codebase.
• Integrate platform and partner technologies into the game engine.
• Collaborate with content teams on feature development.
• Mentor developers through code reviews and guidance.

Skills

8+ years exp

AI orchestration

HTML/CSS/JS

Server-side language

Python

C/C++

UI workflows

Large codebases

Cloud services

Git/GitLab/Perforce

CS fundamentals

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Full Stack Developer, AI & Tools (Apex Legends)

Location: Vancouver, BC or Montreal, QC

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days onsite/week)

Respawn is looking for a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools to build and design various tooling for Apex Legends game and to explore opportunities enabling AI automation driven workflow integrations within the tools.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools you will report to Lead Developer of our Shared Tools team and will work with content / technical / product directors and the tools development team to design, build and enable tools with AI.

You will also partner with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver extendable tools that support content creation workflow and are performant and robust to support a live game.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain tools and pipelines supporting a live game
• Identify opportunities for AI tools integration, prototype integrations and architecture and develop AI enabled solutions
• Connect models to internal tools, APIs, and databases to execute complex, multi-step agentic workflows
• Own multi-disciplinary technical initiatives from design, user testing to release to internal customers
• Optimize memory, CPU and performance of new and existing tools
• Debug and resolve complex issues in a large scale codebase
• Integrate platform and partner technologies into the game engine
• Collaborate with content teams on feature development
• Mentor developers through code reviews and technical guidance

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing, building, deploying, and scaling enterprise-grade online applications supporting a game engine/live service
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, and foundational models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source weights)
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; experience with modern JavaScript frameworks is highly preferred
• Solid understanding of at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Python, Node.js, C#) and RESTful API design.
• C/C++ experience is highly preferred
• Familiarity with UI workflows and UI authoring frameworks
• Experience working in large, shared codebases
• Deep understanding of system design, microservices architecture, design patterns, and scaling high-traffic systems
• Experience with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Good knowledge of at least one version control system (Git/Gitlab/Perforce) and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of computer science foundations

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with DCC tools
• Shipped at least one AAA game on console or PC is highly preferred
• Experience shipping and supporting a live service game
• Experience with automated testing, or build systems

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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)
• $169,500 - $242,600 CAD

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

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.