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Tools Software Engineer - FIFA

Electronic Arts

Toronto, ON 10-26-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world's #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.

As a Tools Software Engineer, you will be part of a talented, multi-disciplinary team working in the Frostbite Engine to develop features, tools and workflows for the FIFA team. You will partner with the art, rendering and software engineering teams to implement pragmatic solutions across our content creation and engineering pipelines. This includes the workflows and systems for artists and engineers spanning asset creation, offline processing, storage, caching, feature development, and cinematics.

Your Responsibilities:
• Work closely with producers, designers, artists and other engineers to develop user-friendly tools; easy to manage and efficient pipelines; and optimal workflows that aid in the development and iteration of game content.
• Analyze workflows and bottlenecks in the content production process, and identify opportunities to leverage automation to implement practical solutions.
• Devise and implement methods to optimally store and transform data along the offline tool processing chain.
• Implement new features and improve existing ones in workflow tools using C# and C++.
• Help troubleshoot issues the team encounters locally as well as with the tools themselves in a patient and understanding manner.
• Identify 3rd party solutions and integrate them into our workflow where appropriate.

Your Qualifications:
• Excellent and proven communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience using C++ and C# in a professional environment.
• Experience with video game content pipelines on shipped games.
• Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases such as mySQL, MongoDB.
• Ability to analyze and improve workflow to enhance group productivity and ease workloads.
• Demonstrated knowledge of good software engineering practices.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4w647-3-17-28-48-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. EA develops and delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.