As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivalled authenticity.
With more opportunity than ever to design, innovate and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, we invite you to join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom.
The Role: As a Software Engineer on Career Mode, you’ll help build and evolve one of the most played experiences in the game. You’ll work on the technology, tools, and frameworks that power Career and Tournament modes, and you’ll contribute to new features shipped each year.
You will report to the Development Director and work with your Technical Lead to estimate, build, and improve projects. Together with a talented team of +20 engineers, you will work on the technology, tools, and pipelines that form the foundation of our game features, C++ based backend functionality, UI framework and components, content and localization pipelines, content creation tools, and more. You will also develop the game features that are common across teams, including features such as player customization, team management, settings and accessibility
Responsibilities:
● Implementation of new features or new additions to existing features within Career Manager, Career Player and all types of Tournament modes
● Troubleshoot and fix any issues that may arise
● You will manage your piece of feature/ sub-feature. This often means you will be in charge of implementing the BE logic, game flows, and UI screen, plus any UI custom components that are required.
● You contribute to gathering requirements and writing technical functional design specifications. Propose tech solutions for low to medium-complexity features and discuss them with the team lead.
● You will monitor performance and Career Mode stability impact from your changes and address any issues that may arise. You will investigate complex and hard to debug issues and provide tech solutions for addressing them.
● You will report your progress to the Career Mode’s lead and team manager.
● You will be part of a dynamic team focused on bringing high-quality features, tools and frameworks that form the foundation of the Career and Tournament modes along with developing new features every year.
Qualifications:
● Object-oriented programming experience of OO design principles
● 7+ years’ experience in C++ software development
● Experience to quickly understand high-complexity existing and unfamiliar code and modify it.
● Experience to adapt to existing multiple coding styles
● Ability to embrace challenges and find creative ways to overcome them
● Experience in C# and open-minded to learning new tech.
Nice to have:
● Experience in UI technologies (Qt, Unity or Unreal UI frameworks).
● Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Lua), C# and SQL.
● Experience working within an agile team.
● Experience working with Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo game consoles.
● Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.