Senior Engineering Manager - Frostbite Foundation

Requisition Number: 178592

Position Title: Sr Manager Engineering

External Description:

Frostbite is EA’s state-of-the-art multi-platform game development engine. Our global team develops creative engine features and cutting-edge tools that let our game makers create stunning games. We’re honored to have thousands of game developers worldwide using Frostbite as they create some of the industry’s best-known titles and amazing player experiences. Join us as we help shape the future of gaming with Frostbite.

Why join the Frostbite Team?

The Frostbite Foundation team develops technologies that are the fundamental building blocks of the Frostbite engine. The team works at the lowest level across a range of domains, including concurrency, memory systems, and math libraries. You will be a part of daily interactions with many of the most experienced engineers in the company to help solve our most engaging problems, working on the latest hardware, and you will be part of a team that is passionate about pushing our technologies forward.

As a Senior Engineering Manager in Frostbite Foundation you will:

• Hire, motivate, and manage engineers to implement the Frostbite product roadmap.
• Manage retention, efficiency, and overall sustainable team health.
• Grow individual's careers by providing feedback, coaching and mentoring
• Be accountable for and improve your team’s code quality, productivity, and team health by promoting Frostbite standards and implementing software development best practices
• Coach teams to become highly effective, using agile principles and practices
• Foster a culture of diversity to empower teams by encouraging an inclusive environment where all opinions are heard
• Work with Frostbite leaders to plan development work, monitor workload, and communicate progress against commitments
• Collaborate with Engineers on the team, Technical Directors, Product Owners, Program Managers and other Engineering Managers

Qualifications

• You have 7 years of hands-on experience developing software
• You have 5 or more years of leading software teams
• You have experience managing engineers as direct reports
• You have demonstrated a servant leadership mindset in your teams
• You have experience working in engineering teams combining practical R&D and product delivery and support

Bonus

• Experience in game development, game engine work, and C++
• Understanding of modern C++, concurrency, profiling and optimizing for modern CPU architectures.

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Company Profile:

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.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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.

Days Open: 11

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. 

 

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. 

 

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

 

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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.