Description
Respawn Entertainment, an Electronic Arts studio, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Generalist to join the Apex Legends team in either Vancouver or Los Angeles.
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 collaborate with gameplay teams, including engineers, designers, artists, animators, and producers, to create and maintain various systems across the technical stack.
Responsibilities:
- Debug and resolve complex issues in large-scale codebases across multiple 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.
- 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.
- 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, which may include healthcare coverage, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.