Electronic Arts
Lead Engineer - Engineering Productivity
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Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
Golf Clash has been entertaining millions of players for over 9 years and our goal is to continue providing exciting new features and content to our fans for many more years to come. If you want to create games for millions of players to enjoy on the go, then this is the job you’ve been looking for! We are committed to constantly improving our working practices and collective knowledge through training and supporting each other.
We are seeking a seasoned Lead Engineer to drive our technical evolution forward. Collaborating with the Technical Director, you will execute a studio-wide engineering productivity strategy by delivering advanced tooling, automation, and optimized workflows. Your mission is to empower our engineers, artists, and designers to accelerate delivery, enhance product quality, and future-proof our studio operations.
This is a broad, hands-on technical role spanning engineering tools, AI-enabled workflows, content creation pipelines, build and release systems, engine development, observability, and studio-wide developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Technical Director to execute the studio's engineering productivity and workflow transformation strategy by driving the evolution of studio tooling, automation, and content pipelines to accelerate content creation and iteration.
- Improve creative feedback loops and authoring workflows to help reduce the time from idea to player value.
- Leverage AI and automation to streamline engineering, content creation, and operational workflows, applying emerging technologies where they deliver measurable improvements in productivity and quality.
- Develop and evolve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering workflows that improve reliability, quality, and release velocity.
- Build and maintain highly visible dashboards and operational tooling that communicate the health of the product and the production pipeline.
- Develop profiling, diagnostics, and optimization tooling that helps teams understand performance, memory, and technical budgets across the game.
- Work closely with client, engine, server, DevOps, QA, design, art, and production teams to deliver improvements that benefit the entire studio.
- Build strong technical partnerships with EA central technology teams and partner studios, adopting common capabilities where appropriate while contributing improvements back into the wider EA ecosystem.
- Promote engineering excellence through maintainable architecture, automation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Communicate clearly and effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- Prioritize engineering initiatives by evaluating technical work against measurable ROIs, ensuring efforts directly contribute to business outcomes and product goals.
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Must Haves
- Significant professional software engineering experience, ideally within games or another technically demanding industry.
- Experience building engineering, production, or operational tooling, such as dashboards, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or developer workflows.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to work across a broad range of technologies.
- Experience collaborating across disciplines including engineering, design, art, and production.
- Experience taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and turning ideas into practical, adopted solutions.
- Ability to rapidly learn new technologies, tools, and programming languages.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across teams and disciplines.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with C++, scripting languages, and web technologies.
- Experience working on live service games.
- Experience developing tools for game engines or proprietary technology.
- Experience building content creation pipelines for artists or designers.
- Experience with build systems and release automation.
- Experience developing profiling, diagnostics, or performance analysis tools.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
- Practical experience integrating agentic workflows into software engineering or content creation workflows.
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About Electronic Arts
We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
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.
General Information
- Locations: Manchester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- Role ID: 215804
- Worker Type: Regular Employee
- Studio/Department: EA Mobile - Playdemic
- Work Model: Hybrid
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