Senior Tools Developer - Game Content Pipelines

Respawn Entertainment; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Tools Developer for Apex Legends with strong C++ and 3D math skills. You will design and maintain editors, pipelines, and tooling for content teams across multiple game projects.

The role requires 5+ years building editors and experienced with large codebases and game engine workflows. You will collaborate with developers, artists, and designers to optimize asset workflows, implement tooling improvements, and drive toolchain quality.

Qualifications

• Excellent C++ and 3D math skills.
• 5+ years building editors, systems and engines for game development with large codebases.
• Strong experience with level design, art, animation and content workflows in a game engine.
• Familiarity with commercial and proprietary game engines and their toolchains.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques and design patterns for user-facing apps and game dev.
• Experience with UI frameworks and UX best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain editors, compilers, previewers, debuggers and other tools used by our content teams.
• Partner with developers, technical artists and content teams to streamline end-to-end asset creation workflows.
• Maintain and extend content compilation pipelines, including data validation, baking and packaging for runtime use.
• Fix bugs and reduce technical debt across the content authoring tools suite.
• Diagnose and resolve issues reported by content creators and dev support team.
• Translate feedback from content creators into high-quality tool improvements.
• Break down ambiguous development problems in tools into scoped plans and tasks.
• Use telemetry and user feedback to prioritize development work and measure impact.

Skills

C++

3D math

Editors & tools

Game engine toolchains

UI frameworks

Tools

Graphics APIs

C#

Python

DCC tools

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Tools Developer for Apex Legends with strong C++ and 3D math skills. You will design and maintain editors, pipelines, and tooling for content teams across multiple game projects.

The role requires 5+ years building editors and experienced with large codebases and game engine workflows. You will collaborate with developers, artists, and designers to optimize asset workflows, implement tooling improvements, and drive toolchain quality.