Senior Software Engineer (.NET)

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.

We are EA IT Electronic Arts Information Technology (EAIT) group keeps our employees and business operations connected globally. We bring creative technology services to all areas, keeping everyone creative, collaborative and productive. Our team ensures better play across all of EA.

The role is Hybrid in Vancouver (3 days in office).

The Challenge Ahead

This exciting role offers the opportunity to architect and enhance software applications used to create games, at an Enterprise level. You will have the chance to work with game teams across the entire organisation, including FIFA, Madden, Battlefield and Battlefront, and central teams such as Frostbite and Origin. You have a strong focus on innovation and leverage a deep technical experience. You will contribute to the roadmap, architecture and technical and business delivery of several software applications. We require strong soft skills to collaborate with individual game teams, to gain adoption and enhance these solutions.

Main Responsibilities

Enterprise-level solution experience:

• Contributes across an entire project lifecycle, which includes gathering requirements from key technical leaders, creating a vision and strategy, presenting to leadership, developing the product roadmap, ensuring projects are on track and completed on time, managing communication with all stakeholders, and collaborating with the development team

• Participate in all aspects of the proposed service end-to-end, including design, implementation, support, vendor relations and customer interaction

• Manage the relationship with vendors if applicable, including sourcing, evaluation, and escalation

Coding, language, architectural design, testing and support:

• Develop solutions as part of the game development application services portfolio that are modular, portable, testable and reliable

• Drive usage of coding best practices;Participates in code reviews and provides constructive feedback on design and implementation to help others improve coding skills

• Oversee support and administrative actions related to the installation and maintenance of production systems, while also engineering solutions that require minimal support

• Leverage the cloud where appropriate,using automation, cloud computing and configuration as code

Qualifications and Requirements

• 8 + years of experience developing Enterprise level solutions

• 8+ years of source control management experience including advanced concepts like branching strategies and developer workflows

• 8+ years of experience with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment

• 8+ years of experience working with standard Microsoft.NET web development tools including C#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5+, CSS3+, JavaScript, WCF, REST API, jQuery

• 8+ years of experience in database development

• 3+ years of experience with virtualization and cloud platforms (e.g. VMware, Azure, or AWS); Preferred AWS or Azure certifications

  Additional requirements

• Experience with different project management models (specifically Agile)

• Excellent verbal and written communication, and customer service skills

• Experience developing automation solutions using tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terrafort

• Experience in container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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

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.