Lead Online Software Engineer - EA Sports FC

Description & Requirements

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. EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences.

EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC. After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's biggest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA, we are soon beginning a new era. EA SPORTS™ FC will become the future of football from EA SPORTS – as we aim to take global football experiences to new heights, on behalf of football fans everywhere.

With more opportunity than ever to create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to a global community of fans, we invite you to join us and pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS!

• Lead the Online engineering area for the EA SPORTS™ FC franchise, acting as the subject matter expert for online systems and driving execution, quality, and long-term system health in alignment with the technical direction set by the Technical Director.
• Guide, mentor, and coordinate a distributed team of 20+ engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
• Own the delivery of core online systems, including multiplayer networking, matchmaking, sessions, identity, platform services, telemetry, commerce, persistence, backend integrations, and live service infrastructure.
• Partnering with production and operations leads to plan, prioritize, and deliver Online features across milestone, launch, and post-launch schedules.
• Review and guide technical designs for complex distributed, client/server, peer-to-peer, multithreaded, and real-time multiplayer systems.
• Ensure Online systems meet high standards for performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and player experience.
• Drive engineering best practices across the team, including technical design reviews, code reviews, testing strategies, documentation, incident prevention, and sustainable development processes.
• Identify technical risks early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and drive mitigation plans across teams and disciplines.
• Oversee integration with first-party platform services, third-party APIs, account systems, matchmaking services, telemetry pipelines, and other external online services.
• Collaborate with platform teams to ensure compliance with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and other platform requirements, including certification and online service policies.
• Partner with central technology teams across the company to integrate shared backend services, online infrastructure, and internal platform capabilities, ensuring they meet the franchise's technical, production, and player experience needs.
• Support launch readiness by driving performance testing, scale testing, reliability reviews, failure-mode planning, and operational readiness for online systems.
• Lead the team through live issues, production incidents, and post-launch improvements, ensuring effective investigation, communication, resolution, and follow-up.
• Establish clear ownership models, escalation paths, and communication rhythms for a distributed Online engineering team.
• Coach engineers on architecture, execution, communication, decision-making, and career growth.
• Balance hands-on technical involvement with strategic leadership, stepping into complex architectural, debugging, performance, or production issues when needed.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, operational discipline, and player-focused decision-making.

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements…