Senior/Lead C++ Software Engineer (Generalist - Game Modes) - American Football

Contract: Permanent

Location: Madrid (Relocation support is provided).

Work Model: Hybrid.

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 .

As a Senior Modes Engineer, you will maintain progression systems that guide players toward completing goals, learning the game, unlocking content, and staying engaged. You will be a part of the game creation process, including architectural design, implementation, and debugging on multiple platforms—working on complex problems with the creative team and other technical disciplines in domains including gameplay, online services, databases and tools.

Your Responsibilities:

• You will work with other domain owners to integrate and develop technologies into the game
• Technical oversight of your team members' contributions.
• Share domain knowledge and mentor engineers within their team.
• Design, implement and document technology and strategies to help develop meta systems in a multiplayer environment by other team members.
• Manage features and collaborate with team members.

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in software development with a C++ focus.
• Proficiency in integrating and maintaining large-scale systems covering multiple domains.
• Advanced debugging skills applicable to client/server multiplayer games.
• Experience developing in and debugging multi-threaded/concurrent architectures.
• Experience with Visual Studio and knowledge of the debugging tools.

Pluses:

• Experience working with Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo game consoles.
• Experience working with iOS and Android.
• Experience developing large-scale multiplayer games.
• Experience with Frostbite, Unreal or Unity.

Regardless of your specialization, a few things we're always looking for:

• Passion. You love programming and are always looking to learn more and hone your craft.
• Excel in a team environment. You look for help when you're stuck and you want to help your teammates when they need it.
• Experience managing your time. You know when to go deeper on a task versus recognizing that it's time to get 'er done and move on to the next thing. Quality is important, but so is speed!
• Projects you've worked on in the past (personal or professional) got finished, and got finished...and it had a lot to do with you.