Tools Developer (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment, part of Electronic Arts, is seeking a Tools Developer for Apex Legends. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to improve, optimize, 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 prioritize 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.
• Solid knowledge of software development principles, performance optimization techniques, and design patterns used in user-facing applications and game development.
• Experience with UI frameworks and an eye for UX best practices.

The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Salary ranges: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD (British Columbia) or $143,800 - $217,200 USD (California)
• Benefits packages vary by location but generally include paid time off, sick time, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plans.