Tools Developer (Apex Legends)

Respawn, a studio within Electronic Arts, is seeking a Tools Developer to work on Apex Legends. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to improve, optimise, support, and develop new features for content authoring tools.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain editors, compilers, previewers, debuggers, and other tools used by content teams.
• Collaborate with developers, technical artists, and content teams to define and streamline end-to-end asset creation workflows.
• Maintain and extend content compilation pipelines, including data validation, baking, and packaging for runtime use.
• Fix bugs and reduce technical debt across the content authoring tools suite.
• Diagnose and resolve issues reported by content creators and dev support teams.
• Translate feedback from content creators into high-quality tool improvements.
• Break down complex development problems into scoped plans, identifying dependencies, risks, and relevant tasks.
• Use telemetry and user feedback to prioritise development work and measure the impact of delivered changes.
• Propose and lead initiatives that improve the team's tools architecture and development practices.

Requirements:

• Excellent C++ and 3D math skills.
• 5+ years of experience building editors, systems, and engines for game development, having shipped game projects with large, mature codebases.
• Strong experience with level design, art, animation, and other content workflows in a game engine.
• Familiarity with commercial and proprietary game engines and their toolchains.
• Well-versed in software development principles and contemporary standards, with solid knowledge of performance optimisation techniques and design patterns used in user-facing applications and game development.
• Experience with UI frameworks and an eye for UX best practices.
• A humble, service-minded subject matter expert who enjoys being the go-to person for internal customers and solving issues for them.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with graphics APIs.
• Experience building tools in C# and Python.
• Experience working with DCC tools

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.