Senior Software Engineer - Payments

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work across a wide range of domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll dive into cross-functional projects that contribute to team cohesion and advance broader product goals. You'll lead by example, providing other engineers with a strong model of technical excellence, thoughtful collaboration, and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Payments, you will design and build secure, reliable, and scalable payment experiences that span both the front-end and back-end. You’ll work closely with the Technical Lead and cross-functional partners to define and implement the technical direction of our global payments platform—helping us serve more players in more regions. You’ll set a high bar for architecture, code quality, and performance, while mentoring fellow engineers and contributing to a healthy team culture. You’ll report directly to the team’s Senior Software Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to build end-to-end features across the stack (front-end, back-end, data, and infrastructure)
• Build and maintain back-end distributed services that power payment products and features
• Develop and enhance front-end user interfaces for payment flows, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and security
• Improve automation and observability in our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
• Contribute to the design and evolution of our service architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability
• Demonstrate engineering excellence by going on-call for live payments services; lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Provide technical mentorship, conduct design and code reviews, and support the growth of engineers on the team

Required Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
• Solid experience with front-end technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript) and back-end systems (e.g., RESTful services, distributed systems, object-oriented design, Event-Driven Architecture)
• Deep programming experience with Java
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Strong understanding of secure development practices, especially in handling sensitive data like payment information

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with payment gateways or 3rd-party payments service providers
• Experience working on mission-critical systems at scale
• Familiarity with front-end performance optimization, experimentation frameworks or analytics tools, and accessibility standards
• Previous experience in the games industry or with player-facing digital commerce systems

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.