Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS UFC

EA Sports; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 141,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks/year

Sick time 10 days/year

Health/dental/vision coverage

Retirement plan

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and grow talent across disciplines. The role is hybrid, with 3 days per week at our Burnaby studio in British Columbia and reports to the Technical Director.

You will mentor engineers, plan headcount, align with product vision, drive delivery quality, and champion AI-assisted development tools in collaboration with Production, Design, and Art/TA to deliver major features.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience delivering complex, multi-platform systems or live-service titles.
• 4+ years of direct engineering leadership experience, including managing managers or multi-team organizations.
• Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning.
• Experience identifying and recruiting talent based on staffing requirements; understanding interviewing techniques.
• Demonstrated history of leading multi-year technical strategies and driving organizational growth.
• Deep technical background in large-scale software design, modern programming paradigms (C++, C#, Java), distributed systems, and platform ecosystems.
• Expertise in establishing processes and metrics to improve team health and execution quality.
• Experience evaluating AI technologies and guiding teams through tool and workflow transformations.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, coaching, performance management, and career development for Engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and initiatives that grow engineering capability and collaboration.
• Partner with leadership on headcount planning, team structuring, succession planning, hiring, and onboarding.
• Guide long-term technical strategy aligned with product vision and studio-wide goals across multiple workstreams.
• Partner with Production, Design, Art/TA, QV, and other disciplines to align priorities and deliver cohesive product outcomes.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, predictable delivery, quality, and collaboration.
• Uphold standards for architecture, code quality, performance, testing, continuous delivery, and debt management.
• Oversee engineering execution across multiple teams, managing risks and dependencies for major features.
• Evaluate new technologies and toolchains to guide make-vs-buy decisions and adoption of AI.

Skills

10+ years experience

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Talent recruitment

Technical strategy

C++

C#

Java

Distributed systems

AI adoption

Job description

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspireplayers and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part ofa community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives,new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes playhappen.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connectinghundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through aportfolio of industry-leading video games.

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

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a missionto become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate aboutbuilding immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams, shapetechnical strategy, and grow our technical talent to deliver high-quality sportsentertainment games. You will bring a background of varied technicalcapabilities that can include system design, engineering workflows, and onlinearchitectures.

You will work in a hybrid model, 3 days a week out of our EAV Studio in Burnaby,British Columbia (Tuesday to Thursday) and will report to the TechnicalDirector.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, coaching, performance management, and careerdevelopment for Engineers across multiple technical disciplines. Developengineers and future technical leaders.
• Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and initiatives that growengineering capability and collaboration across teams.
• Partner with leadership on headcount planning, team structuring, successionplanning, hiring, and onboarding to build the engineering talent and cultureneeded for our future.
• Guide long-term technical strategy aligned with product vision andstudio-wide goals across multiple workstreams
• Partner with Production, Design, Art/TA, QV, and other disciplines to alignpriorities, navigate trade-offs, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesiveproduct outcomes.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, predictable delivery,quality, and collaboration.
• Uphold standards for architecture, code quality, performance, testing,continuous delivery, and sustainable management of technical debt.
• Oversee engineering execution across multiple concurrent teams, managingrisks and dependencies to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of majorfeatures and milestones.
• Evaluate new technologies, third-party solutions, and toolchains to guidemake-vs-buy decisions and strategic technology adoption.
• Champion and lead team-wide adoption of AI-assisted development tools,defining and enforcing guidelines and best practices to incorporate AI intocoding and workflows effectively and responsibly.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience delivering complex,multi-platform software systems or live-service titles.
• 4+ years of direct engineering leadership experience, including managingmanagers, lead engineers, or multi-team organizations.
• 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
• Demonstrated history of leading multi-year technical strategies and drivingorganizational growth.
• Deep technical background in large-scale software design, modern programmingparadigms (e.g., C++, C#, Java), distributed systems, and platformecosystems.
• Expertise in establishing processes and metrics to improve team health andexecution quality.
• Experience evaluating latest AI technologies, leading teams through tool andworkflow transformation, and educating teams on safe and high-impact AI usage

Pay Transparency - North America

Compensation And Benefits

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants forthis role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in adifferent 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)
• $141,400 - $204,400 CAD

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per yearto start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, lifeinsurance, 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, locationsaround the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability,resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out yourpotential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you todo 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 healthcarecoverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, familyleaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teamscan always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions aremade 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, familystatus, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We willalso consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records inaccordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations forqualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.