Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS UFC

Electronic Arts; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks/year

Sick time 10 days/year

Top-up EI/QPIP benefits

Health benefits

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a diverse, global engineering organization. You will shape teams, help drive strategy, and ensure delivery of high-quality online services and gameplay features.

Reporting to senior leadership, you will mentor engineers, coordinate with product owners, and foster an agile culture while advancing C++ engineering practices and scalable architectures for EA SPORTS titles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 10+ years relevant experience in software engineering leadership.
• 5+ years of experience leading agile engineering teams of 6+ engineers.
• Experience mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning.
• Experience identifying and recruiting talent based on staffing requirements and interviewing.
• Technical understanding of OOP and C++ to coach engineers.
• Experience with Perforce, Git, and Visual Studio.
• Familiarity with CI, CD, deployment best practices.

Responsibilities

• Run all aspects of people management for diverse global engineering teams.
• Improve team health and well-being.
• Organize mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and guidance for engineers.
• Drive staffing and recruitment to grow engineering teams.
• Foster an agile culture valuing delivery, quality, and craftsmanship.
• Determine technical resource requirements to reach goals.
• Promote processes and management of tasks for teams/features.
• Coordinate strategic planning with partners and product owners.
• Improve workflows and tooling to increase productivity.
• Stay up-to-date with engineering developments and attend conferences.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Mentoring & career planning

Staffing & recruitment

OOP concepts

C++ coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of relevant work experience

Tools

Perforce

Git

Visual Studio

Job description

Role ID

215835

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Work Model

Hybrid

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.

*This role will be hybrid/onsite in Vancouver, BC*
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden® NFL and College Football®, FC®, NHL®, and EA SPORTS UFC®.

The EA SPORTS™ UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

The EA SPORTS™ UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

In your role as a Senior Software Engineering Manager, you will help us build a motivated team. You will bring a background of varied technical capabilities that can include system design, engineering workflows, and online architectures. Reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager or Technical Director, this means building thoughtful engineering teams, partnering with the teams and responsibilities that your teams will support, always with an eye on how to achieve the best quality capabilities and services that our players can rely on.

Responsibilities

• You will run all aspects of people management for your diverse and global engineering teams. This ranges from hiring, to career growth and promotion, to performance management.
• You will improve team health (stress awareness and managing employee well-being).
• Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and guidance to grow your engineers.
• Drive staffing and recruitment for our teams. Help us by hiring the engineers we need to grow our engineering culture
• Foster an agile engineering culture that values delivery, quality, and good craftsmanship.
• Determine the technical resource requirements to meet project goals.
• Promote and help create technical processes, plans, and management of tasks for technical teams/features.
• Coordinate strategic efforts and planning with team members, project partners, product owners, and other partners.
• Improve workflows, tools, and iteration loops to increase productivity.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering and technology, including attendance at conferences, seminars, and meet-ups
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 10+ year relevant work experience
• 5+ years of experience leading agile engineering teams of 6+ engineers
• Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning
• Experience identifying and recruiting talent based on staffing requirements; you understand candidate hiring practices including interviewing techniques
• Technical and practical understanding of OOP and C++ that enables you to coach engineers in their trade
• Experience with development environment tools such as Perforce, Git, Visual Studio
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices

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

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.

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.