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Senior Software Engineering Manager - EA SPORTS™ UFC
@ Electronic Arts
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Electronic Arts is hiring a Senior Software Engineering Manager for its EA SPORTS UFC team in Vancouver. The role leads multiple engineering teams, shapes long-term technical strategy, and grows engineering talent for live-service sports games. It is hybrid, with three office days a week in Burnaby, and pays $141,400 to $204,400 CAD.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop engineers across multiple technical disciplines
- Guide long-term technical strategy across workstreams
- Partner with Production, Design, Art and QV on delivery
- Oversee engineering execution and manage dependencies and risks
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tools
Requirements summary:
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Experience with mentoring, goal setting and career planning
- Experience hiring and interviewing candidates
- Deep background in large-scale software design and distributed systems
- Experience with C++, C#, or Java
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-11
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- 2026-10-17
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Management experience | 4+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Retirement plan, Performance bonus |
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Electronic Arts
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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 team where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. Regardless of your role, team, or location, this is a place where everyone makes play happen. Join us.
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- Other recorded names
- Electronic Arts
- Electronic Arts (EA)
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- Console Games
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- Tech
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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 team where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. Regardless of your role, team, or location, this is a place where everyone makes play happen. Join us.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Entertainment Providers |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, CA |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | Mobile GamesConsole GamesDevelopmentPublishingTechand Interactive Entertainment |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 275 |
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EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.
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.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and grow our technical talent to deliver high-quality sports entertainment games. You will bring a background of varied technical capabilities that can include system design, engineering workflows, and online architectures.
You will work in a hybrid model, 3 days a week out of our EAV Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia (Tuesday to Thursday) and will report to the Technical Director.
Responsibilities:
Provide direct line management, coaching, performance management, and career development for Engineers across multiple technical disciplines. Develop engineers and future technical leaders.
Organize and lead mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and initiatives that grow engineering capability and collaboration across teams.
Partner with leadership on headcount planning, team structuring, succession planning, hiring, and onboarding to build the engineering talent and culture needed for our future.
Guide long-term technical strategy aligned with product vision and studio-wide goals across multiple workstreams
Partner with Production, Design, Art/TA, QV, and other disciplines to align priorities, navigate trade-offs, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive product outcomes.
Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, predictable delivery, quality, and collaboration.
Uphold standards for architecture, code quality, performance, testing, continuous delivery, and sustainable management of technical debt.
Oversee engineering execution across multiple concurrent teams, managing risks and dependencies to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of major features and milestones.
Evaluate new technologies, third-party solutions, and toolchains to guide make-vs-buy decisions and strategic technology adoption.
Champion and lead team-wide adoption of AI-assisted development tools, defining and enforcing guidelines and best practices to incorporate AI into coding and workflows effectively and responsibly.
Qualifications:
10+ years of professional software development experience delivering complex, multi-platform software systems or live-service titles.
4+ years of direct engineering leadership experience, including managing managers, lead engineers, or multi-team organizations.
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
Demonstrated history of leading multi-year technical strategies and driving organizational growth.
Deep technical background in large-scale software design, modern programming paradigms (e.g., C++, C#, Java), distributed systems, and platform ecosystems.
Expertise in establishing processes and metrics to improve team health and execution quality.
Experience evaluating latest AI technologies, leading teams through tool and workflow transformation, and educating teams on safe and high-impact AI usage
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 CADFor 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.
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.
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