# Generalist Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ FC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Generalist Software Engineer to join the EA SPORTS™ FC team. As a Games Software Engineer, you will report to the team's Development Director and work on complex problems with Producers, Designers, Artists, and other Engineers.

Your responsibilities include:

- Working with Server and Client engineers to establish, hook up, and test end-to-end functionality

- Using and designing REST-based HTTP APIs

- Working with the game's UI tech stack

- Designing, implementing, testing, debugging, and maintaining code for game features or components

- Architecting and documenting technical designs for game technology and features

- Measurably improving process and best practices to achieve targets

- Collaborating within and across teams of technical and non-technical game developers, locally or remotely

Your qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience

- 5+ years of experience in software development and can demonstrate good development practices

- Good grasp of the C++ programming language, best practices, and architectural considerations

- Good understanding of object-oriented design and online services (HTTP via REST)

- Good debugging skills and familiarity with network programming and memory management

- Familiarity with the XML and JSON formats

- Experience with Visual Studio and source control systems

- Experience with Live Service Games is beneficial

- Strong communication skills and teamwork skills

- Good understanding of working with legacy code and legacy code risk mitigation

- Experience with Live games and/or commerce services is a plus

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive portfolio of games and experiences, and the company values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. The company's benefit package focuses on physical, emotional, economic, and career well-being to support a balanced life.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- REST-based HTTP APIs
- UI tech stack
- object-oriented design
- online services
- debugging
- network programming
- memory management
- XML
- JSON
- Visual Studio
- source control systems

### Nice to have
- Live Service Games
- commerce services
- legacy code risk mitigation

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