Engineering Manager

This role leads a team of software engineers within FC Quality Verification Engineering, building and running test automation and AI-powered developer tools that help EA SPORTS FC teams understand game quality. The team partners with development, quality, production, and live operations teams across Vancouver and Bucharest. The role combines people leadership with delivery ownership and reports to the Technical Director.

• Build and elevate an engineering team by hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers through regular 1:1s, useful feedback, performance management, and career planning.
• Lead technical execution with clear ownership, achievable plans, and a sustainable workload across locations and time zones.
• Turn partner priorities into delivery commitments, adapting plans as needs evolve, following through on milestones, and communicating risks, dependencies, and obstacles early to technical and non-technical partners.
• Partner with the Technical Director and engineers to review designs, explain decisions and trade-offs, and resolve technical roadblocks.
• Take initiative to improve engineering practices across design, testing, continuous integration, and operational support using quality, reliability, and adoption metrics.
• Track relevant technology trends and developments, guiding the team in evaluating and adopting AI-assisted workflows and engineering tools.

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on engineering and technical team leadership.
• 2+ years of direct people management of software engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Proven success spearheading the delivery of automation, developer tooling, or comparable platforms, owning prioritisation, capacity planning, and complex cross-team dependencies.
• Experience in C#, C++, or Python, software design, testing, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows.

• Hybrid, at least 3 days a week, from the office in Burnaby, BC.

• Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
• 10 days per year of paid sick time.
• Company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programmes.