Engineering Manager

In FC Quality Verification Engineering, our mission is to build the test automation and AI-powered developer tools that help our EA SPORTS FC teams understand game quality.

As an Engineering Manager in Vancouver, you will work with us to lead a team of software engineers building and running these systems. You will combine people leadership with delivery ownership, reporting to our Technical Director.

Responsibilities:

• Build and elevate an engineering team. Hire, onboard and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, useful feedback, performance management and career planning.
• Lead technical execution with clear ownership, achievable plans and a sustainable workload across locations and time zones.
• Turn our partner priorities into delivery commitments, adapting plans as needs evolve, following through on milestones, and communicating risks, dependencies, and obstacles early to technical and non-technical partners.
• Partner with our Technical Director and engineers to review designs, explain decisions and trade-offs, and resolve technical roadblocks.
• Take initiative to improve our engineering practices across design, testing, continuous integration, and operational support using quality, reliability, and adoption metrics.
• Track relevant technology trends and developments, guiding our team in evaluating and adopting AI-assisted workflows and engineering tools.

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on engineering and technical team leadership.
• 2+ years of direct people management of software engineers, including coaching, performance management and career development.
• Proven success spearheading the delivery of automation, developer tooling, or comparable platforms, owning prioritization, capacity planning, and complex cross-team dependencies.
• Experience in C#, C++, or Python, software design, testing, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows.

Benefits:

• 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
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan