Software Engineer - UFC

Role

215824

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Work Model

Hybrid

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.

Important Note:

This team works onsite at EA Vancouver (Burnaby office). Applicants are required to work onsite 3 days, Tuesday
- Thursday every week.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

This team works 3 days/week onsite in our Burnaby studio.

As a Systems Software Engineer , you will help define, deliver, and evolve the foundational engine and technology systems that enable performance, scalability, and creative freedom across all domains—gameplay, animation, rendering, online, front end, and tools.

This role focuses on hands-on engineering and collaborative problem solving. You’ll work on challenging systems problems while taking ownership of key initiatives, collaborating across teams, and enabling others to succeed.

Act as a trusted technical partner across the team, helping engineers understand platform capabilities, engine behavior, and system-level tradeoffs .

Enable other domains to design and ship better features by providing guidance, shared systems, and scalable technical solutions.

Help define and drive engine, platform, automation, and release strategies in partnership with technical leadership.

Deliver foundational improvements in performance, memory usage, load times, stability, and developer workflows through well-designed systems.

Own the delivery of systems initiatives end-to-end, including planning, risk identification, and execution.

Track and uphold technical KPIs across performance, memory, stability, and maintainability on all supported platforms.

Ensure systems ship predictably, scale effectively , and support both development and live-service needs.

Build strong working relationships with franchise systems teams and central engine groups , sharing solutions, best practices, and hard-earned lessons.

3+ years of professional software engineering experience , including work on large-scale or performance-sensitive systems .

Strong expertise in C++ and comfort navigating large, complex codebases .

Solid understanding of systems-level fundamentals : performance, memory management, multithreading, and platform constraints.

Experience working in or alongside game engines or real-time systems .

A proven ability to deliver complex systems end-to-end with quality and predictability.

Experience with, or strong curiosity around, AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding agents) to accelerate prototyping, development, testing, and workflow automation.

Proven track record of—or strong affinity for—integrating emerging AI technologies into development or creative pipelines to drive innovation and efficiency

A collaborative, support-oriented mindset ,…