Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS UFC

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation (Canada)

10 days sick time

Top-up EI/QPIP benefits for new child

Extended health/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

EA SPORTS in Burnaby/Vancouver area leads engineering teams to deliver high-quality sports entertainment games. The role shapes technical strategy, grows talent, and collaborates across Production, Design, Art/TA, and QV to align priorities and deliver cohesive product outcomes.

The position emphasizes ownership, predictable delivery, code quality, and strategic technology adoption, including AI-assisted development tools within a hybrid work model.

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 or multi-team organisations.
• Deep technical background in large-scale software design and modern programming paradigms (C++, C#, Java).
• Experience leading multi-year technical strategies and driving organisational growth.
• Experience evaluating AI technologies and guiding teams in safe, high-impact AI usage.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, coaching, and career development for engineers across disciplines.
• Organise mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and initiatives that grow engineering capability and collaboration.
• Lead headcount planning, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning to build engineering talent and culture.
• Guide long-term technical strategy aligned with product vision and studio goals across workstreams.
• Oversee engineering execution across multiple teams, managing risks and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted development tools with guidelines for safe use.

Skills

C++

C#

Java

Distributed systems

Large-scale software design

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

About the Role

This role leads engineering teams, shapes technical strategy, and grows technical talent to deliver high-quality sports entertainment games for the EA SPORTS UFC franchise. The team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. The role works across multiple technical disciplines and partners with Production, Design, Art/TA, QV, and other disciplines to align priorities, navigate trade-offs, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive product outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, coaching, performance management, and career development for engineers across multiple technical disciplines, developing engineers and future technical leaders.
• Organise 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 engineering talent and culture.
• 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.

Required Experience & 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 organisations.
• Background in varied technical capabilities, which may include system design, engineering workflows, and online architectures.
• Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation, and career planning.
• Experience identifying and recruiting talent based on staffing requirements, including understanding candidate hiring practices and interviewing techniques.
• Demonstrated history of leading multi‑year technical strategies and driving organisational 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.

Workplace

• Hybrid working model: 3 days per week in the EAV Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia (Tuesday to Thursday).
• Reports to the Technical Director.
• The EA SPORTS UFC team is located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Salary

• If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits.
• Pay offered will be determined based on relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

Benefits & Perks

• For Canada, benefits include 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 welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan for regular full‑time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programmes.

About the Company

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry‑leading video games.