# Senior Software Engineer - Generalist

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,400 - $204,400 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Role Details

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.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Vancouver or Los Angeles

Reports to: Technical Director

Job Summary:

Founded in 2010, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they’ll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. Respawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Star Wars Jedi titles. Join us to help shape the future of one of the world’s leading live service franchises: Apex Legends.

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, tools engineers, game designers and producers to create and maintain a wide-variety of systems across our entire technical stack, from the engine to our game services backend. Ultimately, your work will help ensure every new release of the game to our players is of outstanding quality and the best experience it can be.

Responsibilities:

- Debug and resolve complex issues in large-scale codebases across a variety of levels of abstraction

- Collaborate with other engineers to quantify game performance, prevent regressions and improve launch stability.

- Improve our online multiplayer experience by contributing strong networking code

- Design, own and maintain engine systems, focused on performance and stability across consoles and dedicated servers.

- Analyze performance data results, identify crashes and defects, and guide improvements that directly impact the player experience.

Required Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining software or equivalent game development experience

- Experience working in large, shared codebases (not necessarily games!)

- Strong working knowledge of C/C++

- Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python

- Experience with profiling and optimizing software

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Python
- Profiling and optimizing software
- Game development experience
- Large-scale codebases

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