Tools Software Engineer

5 Months ago • 4 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Tools Software Engineer at Maxis (an EA studio), you'll collaborate with content developers to build and maintain internal tools that enhance creativity and productivity. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, developing solutions in C# and C++, providing technical support, performing root cause analysis, and improving workflows. You'll focus on increasing efficiency through automation and process improvements. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for developer tools, experience with video game content pipelines, and proven skills in C# and C++.
Must have:
  • Improve development capacity through tooling and automation
  • Build, maintain, and support internal tools
  • Gather requirements and collaborate on solutions
  • Implement new features in workflow tools (C# and C++)
  • Provide customer support and troubleshoot issues
  • Perform root cause analysis and improve pipelines
Good to have:
  • CS degree
  • WPF experience or similar GUI frameworks
  • Python experience
  • Database experience
Perks:
  • 3 weeks vacation
  • 10 days sick time
  • Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits
  • Extended health/dental/vision coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • Bonus (potential)
  • Equity (potential)

Job Details

Description & Requirements

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of the Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be. Read on to see how you can join our team and dream big.

As a Tools Engineer you will work closely with content developers across the team to develop and support Tools to enhance their creativity and productivity.  You will be reporting to the Tools Lead Engineer.

Responsibilities

  • Focus on improving our development capacity and operating efficiency through tooling, process and automation
  • Build, maintain, and support internal tools designed to empower content creators
  • You will work closely with all disciplines to gather requirements, collaborate on solutions and execute
  • Implement new features and improve existing ones in workflow tools using C# and C++
  • Provide customer support troubleshooting issues the local game team encounters as well as with the tools themselves in a patient and understanding manner
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis and improve pipeline / workflow improvements to increase productivity and ease workloads
  • Able to work independently
  • Update and create clear and concise documentation to support pipeline / workflow processes

Qualifications

  • Passion for making tools for developers through a customer oriented mindset
  • Experience with video game content pipelines on shipped games
  • Proven programming experience and skill in C# and C++
  • Minimum 4 years professional experience as an engineer on a game/tools team
  • Demonstrated knowledge of good software engineering practices

Nice to Have

  • CS degree
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) experience or similar GUI frameworks
  • Python experience
  • Database experience

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec. 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). BASE SALARY RANGES

  • British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
    • $96,400 - $133,900 CAD

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also 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 equity.

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About The Company

Maxis, creators of the ever-expanding Sims world, is an EA studio where a diverse collection of creatives make games that inspire players across the globe. We have offices in Redwood City, CA, Austin, TX, and Kitchener, ON, as well as team members based across the US and Europe.

Maxis is a place for people who see building games as a unique opportunity to change hearts and minds by giving players the chance to create their own unique experiences. Members of our team are working toward a better world not only through our games, but through employee resource groups and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council.

We support each other so we can be authentic. We foster connectedness so we can collaborate. We respect boundaries to build an environment that’s safe, creative, and ideal for tinkering. We’re on the lookout for diverse, innovative thinkers who want to make a positive impact on the world.

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