Electronic Arts Inc

Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS™ UFC

Electronic Arts Inc$141K — $204K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 10+ years of relevant experience
  • 5+ years of experience leading agile engineering teams of 6+ engineers
  • Experience with mentoring, goal setting, mediation, and career planning
  • Strong understanding of hiring practices including interviewing techniques
  • Technical knowledge of OOP and C++ for coaching engineers
  • Familiarity with development tools like Perforce, Git, Visual Studio
  • Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment best practices

Responsibilities

  • Manage all aspects of people management for diverse global engineering teams
  • Enhance team health by promoting stress awareness and employee well-being
  • Lead mentoring and knowledge-sharing initiatives to foster growth
  • Drive recruitment efforts to build a strong engineering culture
  • Cultivate an agile engineering mindset focusing on delivery and quality
  • Assess technical resource requirements to achieve project goals
  • Develop and promote technical processes and task management for teams
  • Coordinate strategic planning with stakeholders and project partners
  • Optimize workflows and tools to improve team productivity
  • Stay updated with the latest engineering developments through industry events

Benefits

  • 3 weeks of vacation per year to start
  • 10 days of sick time per year
  • Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary for parental leave
  • Extended health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plan for full-time employees
  • Potential eligibility for bonuses and incentive programs
Full Job Description
Description & Requirements



*This role will be hybrid/onsite in Vancouver, BC*

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 and College Football®, FC®, NHL®, and EA SPORTS UFC®.

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.

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.

In your role as a Senior 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 Senior Engineering Manager 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 10+ year relevant work experience
  • 5+ 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 development environment tools such as Perforce, Git, Visual Studio
  • Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment best practices


Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND 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) *$141,400 - $204,400 CAD

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

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

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About Electronic Arts Inc

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The company develops and publishes games, content, and online services for consoles, mobile devices, and personal computers. EA's portfolio includes popular franchises such as FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, and Battlefield. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Learn more about Electronic Arts Inc
Size
12,900 employees
Market Cap
$33.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.1 billion
Founded
1982
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$5.6 billion
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