Développeur.se d’outils / Tools Developer (Apex Legends)

Electronic Arts•Vancouver, BC

2d•CA$122,300 - CA$170,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Respawn is looking for a Tools Developer who is passionate about developing world-class tools for Apex Legends, our flagship game! You will have the chance to improve, optimize, support, and develop new features for our content authoring tools.

Requirements

Excellent C++ and 3D math skills.
5+ years of experience building editors, systems and engines for game development, having shipped game projects with large, mature codebases.
Strong experience with level design, art, animation and other content workflows in a game engine.
Familiarity with commercial and proprietary game engines and their toolchains.
Well-versed in software development principles and contemporary standards, with solid knowledge of performance optimization techniques and design patterns used in user-facing applications and game development.
Experience with UI frameworks and an eye for UX best practices.
A humble, service-minded subject matter expert who enjoys being the go-to person for internal customers and solving issues for them.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with graphics APIs.
Experience building tools in C# and Python.
Experience working with DCC tools

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain editors, compilers, previewers, debuggers and other tools used by our content teams.
Partner with developers, technical artists and content teams to define and streamline end-to-end asset creation workflows.
Maintain and extend content compilation pipelines, including data validation, baking and packaging for runtime use.
Fix bugs and reduce technical debt across the content authoring tools suite.
Diagnose and resolve issues reported by our content creators and dev support team, unblocking their day-to-day work.
Translate feedback from our content creators into high-quality tool improvements.
Break down ambiguous development problems in tools into scoped plans, identifying dependencies, risks and relevant tasks.
Use telemetry and user feedback to prioritize development work and measure the impact of delivered changes.
Propose and lead initiatives that improve the team's tools architecture and development practices.

Benefits

paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
80 hours per year of sick time
16 paid company holidays per year
10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
medical/dental/vision insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
401(k)
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
retirement plan
bonus and other incentive programs
healthcare coverage
mental well-being support
retirement savings
paid time off
family leaves
complimentary games