Senior Software Engineer – Foundations (Apex Legends)

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Foundations team, you will design, build, and maintain technology that enables the team to create engaging gameplay and fantastic experiences for Apex Legends. You will work closely with other Engineers, Design, Art, Animation, and Audio to gather requirements, design, implement, test, optimize and enhance features and toolchain support for those features.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other engineers to understand and solve complex architectural issues
• Own major, cross-cutting technical initiatives and drive them to completion
• Optimize code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed
• Proactively identify issues and fix bugs
• Work with EA Central Tech, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and others to integrate their systems into Apex Legends
• Mentor other engineers with a broad range of experience and seniority

Requirements

• Passion for making and playing games
• Excellent C/C++ skills
• 10+ years experience in game development as an engineer
• Shipped at least one AAA title
• Experience with large code bases and optimizing code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed
• Excellent math skills with an emphasis on 3D math
• Excellent understanding of computation and evidence-based optimization
• Engineering experience working with consoles (Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft)
• Engineering experience working with Windows PC (Microsoft/Steam/Origin)

Nice to Have

• Degree – Bachelor's CS/Math or higher preferred (Or Equivalent work exp)
• Experience with PS5, XBSX (XB5) console generation
• Familiarity with functional programming
• Linux debugging experience
• Console programming experience on a multiplayer AAA game
• Solid foundation in TCP and UDP networking
• Prior professional experience as a respected engineer on a game team
• Comfortable in/with Windows, Linux, Perforce, Visual Studio, curl, PHP, LUA/Squirrel

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