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 soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.
EA SPORTS Madden NFL is the best-selling sports property in U.S. Video game history. Madden NFL is an immersive, simulation-based, authentic NFL interactive experience, empowering fans to play out their NFL fantasy of winning the Super Bowl (and much more). Madden NFL has entertained fans over three decades with more than 130 million lifetime units sold.
In your role as a Software Engineering Manager, you will help us build a motivated team. You will bring a background of varied technical capabilities that can include system design, engineering workflows, and online architectures. Reporting to a Development Director or Technical Director, this means building thoughtful engineering teams, partnering with the teams and responsibilities that your teams will support, always with an eye on how to achieve the best quality capabilities and services that our players can rely on.
Responsibilities:
You will run all aspects of people management for your diverse and global engineering teams. This ranges from hiring, to career growth and promotion, to performance management.
You will improve team health (stress awareness and managing employee well-being).
Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and guidance to grow your engineers.
Drive staffing and recruitment for our teams. Help us by hiring the engineers we need to grow our engineering culture
Foster an agile engineering culture that values delivery, quality, and good craftsmanship.
Determine the technical resource requirements to meet project goals.
Promote and help create technical processes, plans, and management of tasks for technical teams/features.
Coordinate strategic efforts and planning with team members, project partners, product owners, and other partners.
Improve workflows, tools, and iteration loops to increase productivity.
Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering and technology, including attendance at conferences, seminars, and meet-ups
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 7+ year relevant work experience
2+ years of experience leading agile engineering teams of 6+ engineers
Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation and career planning
Experience identifying and recruiting talent based on staffing requirements; you understand candidate hiring practices including interviewing techniques
Technical and practical understanding of OOP and C++ that enables you to coach engineers in their trade
Experience with database technologies such as SQLServer, MySQL or Postgres
Experience with development environment tools such as Perforce, Git, Visual Studio
Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices
About Electronic Arts
Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.
We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.