General Information

Locations: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Role ID

211204

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

EA Studios - SPORTS

Work Model

Hybrid

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.

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.

Reporting to a Senior Manager of Engineer, the Gameplay Tools Engineer will be at the heart of the game creation process, focusing on building intuitive, powerful tools and gameplay systems that enable designers and content creators to craft rich open world experiences. You’ll collaborate with Designers, Artists, and Engineers across disciplines to design, implement, and optimize the systems, workflows, and pipelines that bring gameplay to life. If you love making the “paintbrushes” that allow others to paint and enjoy creating gameplay yourself, this is your role.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and build tools that empower designers and content creators to craft open world missions, systems, and interactive gameplay.
• Contribute directly to gameplay features and mechanics, collaborating with designers to bring their ideas to life.
• Develop scalable workflows that make it easy to prototype, iterate, and deliver open world content at scale.
• Collaborate across gameplay, UI, audio, physics, and online teams to integrate tools and gameplay systems seamlessly.
• Analyze and improve pipelines and workflows, ensuring usability and efficiency for creators.
• Document and share tools and features, mentoring others on best practices for gameplay workflows.
• Stay current on industry best practices in open world gameplay and tools development, introducing new ideas to enhance workflows and player experiences.

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong C++ focus.
• Proven experience building or maintaining tools and gameplay systems that enable designers/content creators to deliver open world or large-scale gameplay.
• Solid understanding of workflows for gameplay systems, mission scripting, and world-building.
• Strong debugging and optimization skills for tools and pipelines in a multi-threaded, real-time game environment.
• Experience integrating tools and features into large, multi-disciplinary game engines.
• Excellent communication skills, with a passion for supporting teammates and empowering creators.

Bonus

• Experience shipping or supporting open world gameplay at scale.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary game engines.
• Background in user experience design or human-centered tools development.

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) *$100,000 - $139,500 CAD

In British Columbia, 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 equity.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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.