Senior Software Engineer - Foundations; Apex Legends

Position: Senior Software Engineer - Foundations (Apex Legends)
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.

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio to joining the expansive roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We truly love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.

Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi:
Fallen Order and Medal of Honor:
Above and Beyond. Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Foundations team, you will design, build, and maintain technology that enables the team to create engaging gameplay and fantastic experiences for Apex Legends. You will work closely with other Engineers, Design, Art, Animation, and Audio to gather requirements, design, implement, test, optimize and enhance features and toolchain support for those features. You will have an opportunity to work on a wide variety of systems, including collision, physics, audio, low-level OS and hardware support, common libraries, data packaging, memory management, asset management, scripting language support, user input, debugging and profiling support, general game simulation management, rendering support, and many others.

Responsibilities

Work closely with other engineers to understand and solve complex architectural issues

Capable of owning major, cross‑cutting technical initiatives and driving them to completion

Optimize code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed

Proactively identify issues and fix bugs

Work with EA Central Tech, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and others to integrate their systems into Apex Legends

Mentor other engineers with a broad range of experience and seniority

Requirements

Passion for making and playing games.

Excellent C/C++ skills.

10+ years experience in game development as an engineer

Shipped at least one AAA title

Experience with large code bases and optimizing code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed

Excellent math skills with an emphasis on 3D math.

Excellent understanding of computation and evidence‑based optimization

Engineering experience working with consoles (Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft)

Engineering experience working with Windows PC (Microsoft/Steam/Origin)

Nice to Have

Degree – Bachelor's CS/Math or higher preferred. (Or Equivalent work exp)

Experience with PS5, XBSX (XB5) console generation

Familiarity with functional programming

Linux debugging experience

Console programming experience on a multiplayer AAA game

Solid foundation in TCP and UDP networking

Prior professional experience as a respected engineer on a game team

Comfortable in/with Windows, Linux, Perforce, Visual Studio, curl, PHP, LUA/Squirrel

Pay Transparency – North America
Compensation & Benefits
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

Pay Ranges

British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) – $138,700 - $199,900 CAD

California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) – $160,600 - $249,300 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80…