Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS UFC

EA SPORTS; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Sick time 10 days

EI/QPIP top-up

Health/Dental/Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Bonus eligibility

Complimentary games

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Canada is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and grow talent to deliver high-quality sports entertainment games.

You will work in a hybrid model, 3 days per week at the Burnaby studio, reporting to the Technical Director.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience delivering complex systems.
• 4+ years of direct engineering leadership experience.
• Experience with mentoring and career planning.
• Experience identifying and recruiting talent.
• Strong background in large-scale software design and modern programming Paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management, coaching, and career development for engineers.
• Lead mentoring and knowledge-sharing across teams.
• Partner with leadership on headcount planning and onboarding.
• Guide long-term technical strategy aligned with product vision.
• Collaborate with Production, Design, Art/TA, QV and others to deliver cohesive outcomes.
• Foster ownership, delivery quality, and collaboration.
• Uphold architecture, code quality, testing, and managing technical debt.
• Oversee multiple teams to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Evaluate new technologies and toolchains for strategic adoption.
• Champion AI-assisted development tools with safe practices.

Skills

Software design

Distributed systems

C++

C#

Java

Team leadership

Mentoring

Hiring practices

Technical strategy

AI tooling

Job description

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.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and grow our technical talent to deliver high-quality sports entertainment games. You will bring a background of varied technical capabilities that can include system design, engineering workflows, and online architectures.

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 Technical Director.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, coaching, performance management, and career development for Engineers across multiple technical disciplines. Develop engineers and future technical leaders.
• Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and initiatives that grow engineering capability and collaboration across teams.
• Partner with leadership on headcount planning, team structuring, succession planning, hiring, and onboarding to build the engineering talent and culture needed for our future.
• 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, navigate trade-offs, manage dependencies, 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 sustainable management of technical debt.
• Oversee engineering execution across multiple concurrent teams, managing risks and dependencies to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of major features and milestones.
• Evaluate new technologies, third-party solutions, and toolchains to guide make-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 into coding 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 managing managers, 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 driving organizational growth.
• Deep technical background in large-scale software design, modern programming paradigms (e.g., C++, C#, Java), distributed systems, and platform ecosystems.
• Expertise in establishing processes and metrics to improve team health and execution quality.
• Experience evaluating latest AI technologies, leading teams through tool and workflow 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 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) *$141,400 - $204,400 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.

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.