Mobile Client Engineer

Glu Mobile; Ontario; On-site; CAD 115,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading gaming company as a Mobile Client Engineer. You'll collaborate across departments to create engaging gameplay features for popular games like Design Home. With a focus on creativity and performance, this mid-level position offers an opportunity to thrive in a dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional player experiences.

Benefits

Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)

Extended health/dental/vision coverage

Flexible parental leave

Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Unity experience.
• Experience in collaborating with non-technical roles.
• Experience in optimizing Unity applications for performance.

Responsibilities

• Work with game design and other engineers on new game features.
• Diagnose performance and stability issues.
• Perform code reviews with other engineers.

Skills

Collaboration

Performance optimization

Problem-solving

Tools

Unity

GitHub

MySQL

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Description & Requirements

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 place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Description & Requirements

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 place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Welcome to EA Mobile, home to developers working on iconic franchises such as Plants vs. Zombies, Design Home, Star Wars, Sim City, Golf Clash, Pogo, and more. At EA Mobile, we value creativity, continuous learning, data-driven decision-making, and strong product knowledge. We are looking for passionate individuals who thrive in a growth-oriented environment and are committed to collaborating in dynamic teams to deliver compelling experiences to millions of players worldwide.

Design Home is looking for a passionate Unity engineer with a desire to build gameplay features that millions of users will enjoy. You will work with every department of our experienced development team to bring brand new game features to life. As a mid-level engineer, you will report directly to Design Home's client Technical Director, and help us maintain a team culture of ownership, accountability, and player-first decision-making. You will learn and uphold best engineering practices for performance optimization, and help us build efficient new pipelines and processes.

Responsibilities

• You will work with game design, production, and other client engineers to help build and support new game features.
• Produce reliable estimates for tasks, and be able to propose alternatives to save on implementation time.
• Work with other engineers to diagnose and root-cause performance and stability issues to provide the best possible experience for our players.
• Help define and maintain Indicators to track trends in game stability and performance.
• You will perform and participate in code reviews with other client engineers.
• Work with back-end engineers to implement and debug basic network features throughout our client code base.
  
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional Unity experience.
• You have experience collaborating with non-technical roles on feature specs and design mock-ups.
• You have experience root-causing and fixing bugs in unfamiliar systems.
• You have experience optimizing Unity applications for performance.
  
  

Bonuses

• Professional experience working on large teams.
• Hands-on experience with Unity Asset Bundle and web request APIs.
• Experience with native platform development.
• Experience with shaders.
• Experience with version control systems like GitHub / GitLab and developing Git branching approaches
• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker.
  
  

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec.

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) * $115,100 - $161,200 CAD
  
  

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also 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 equity.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games

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