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, FIFA soccer, College Football, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

We are looking for a Modes Engineer to play a key role in shipping a high-quality title. Game Modes engineers maintain a broad view of the game and engine systems and look for ways to improve performance, utility, and capabilities to our players and workflow enhancements to our development team, reporting to the Development Manager of the team you will be contributing to

We are looking for passionate engineers who enjoy prototyping and planning, working with other engineers, and building primary systems (often using other systems), workflows, and capabilities that allow us to work smarter and bring substantial improvements to our game.

Responsibilities:

Debug, fix and improve existing code
Help to provide well-tested and high-quality new features that meet requirements
You will implement core EA technologies in an architecturally sound way to help collaborative development efforts
Provide well-tested and high-quality technical implementations that meet design requirements
You will look for ways to increase team efficiency through tooling or workflow enhancements

Requirements:

Good Level of C++, basic understanding of containers, algorithms and object-oriented programming
Some experience or related studies writing technical documentation, and good understanding of best practices, and architectural considerations
Some experience or related studies navigating and understanding a client/server codebase, Peer-to-Peer and multi-threaded architectures
Some experience with Unreal, Unity or any other game engine
Basic understanding of networking concepts: network topologies, rpc, dedicated server…
Modern C++14/17, SQL and Python are a plus

Pluses:

Experience of real-time game networking
Experience working with mobile applications
Good knowledge of the debugging tools
Familiarity with the game development industry and console development
Experience using project tools (e.g. JIRA)

About EA We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. 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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.