Description
Respawn Entertainment, an Electronic Arts studio, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Generalist to join the Apex Legends team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the development of foundational technologies and work to improve the performance and stability of Apex Legends.
You will work closely with gameplay teams,engineers, designers, artists, animators, and producers,to create and maintain a wide variety of systems across the technical stack, from the engine to game services backend. Your work will help ensure every new release of the game to players is of outstanding quality and the best experience possible.
Responsibilities:
- Debug and resolve complex issues in large-scale codebases across various abstraction layers.
- Collaborate with other engineers to quantify game performance, prevent regressions, and improve launch stability.
- Design, own, and maintain gameplay and engine systems, focusing on performance and stability across consoles and dedicated servers.
- Analyse live telemetry and crash data to find defects, prioritise fixes, and guide improvements that directly impact the player experience.
- Build tools and automated content validation to keep artists, designers, and QA moving quickly and prevent bugs from reaching players.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software development or equivalent game development experience.
- Experience working in large, shared codebases, in games or otherwise.
- Strong working knowledge of C/C++.
- Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python.
- Experience with profiling, auditing, and optimising software performance.
- Experience debugging and supporting software running in production.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience on a live service game or other continuously operated product, including feature flags, kill switches, and staged rollouts.
- Familiarity with embedded scripting languages and the boundary between engine code and game script.
- Experience with content or asset build pipelines and adding automated validation to them.
- Experience building developer-facing or content-creator tooling.
- Experience with backend or web services and cloud infrastructure.
Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plans, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.