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.

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

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

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

• 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
• 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

Pay Transparency - North America

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.