Senior Software Engineer, Services - League of Legends

3 Months ago • 4 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $161,500 PA - $227,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to designing and building services related to player behavior within the game. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing maintainable code, authoring architectural design documents, and collaborating with other teams. The role involves identifying opportunities for new service development and refining existing ones. You'll also be on call for live product support. You will be expected to have experience in high-availability services using Java or Go, developing product features, gathering requirements, designing scalable architecture, and influencing latency in online games. The position requires taking ownership, collaborating across the company to deliver player value and driving technical change within the team.
Must have:
  • 4+ years programming experience with Java or Go
  • Experience maintaining live services and handling issues
  • Experience developing product features
  • Understand software performance in online games
Good to have:
  • Experience playing League of Legends
  • Working knowledge of Machine Learning
Perks:
  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

At Riot Games, innovation in gaming is at the heart of what we do. As a Software Engineer for League of Legends on PC, you will have a vital role in shaping player behavior to ensure every person that plays our game has a positive experience. Projects will vary, combining both individual expertise and team collaboration.

As a Senior Software Engineer on League of Legends, you will be at the forefront of driving technical change on the team that delivers direct value to our players through player behavior. In this role, you can expect to contribute and build on top of services that monitor and take action on players that negatively impact the experience in our game. We’re looking for an individual who is comfortable taking the reins on their own and collaborating across the company to deliver player value. You will report directly to an Engineering Manager within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the design and building of services required to support around game features for player behavior within Summoners Rift
  • Work in a variety of different technical capacities, contributing to code bases in multiple languages and tech stacks
  • Write and review reliable maintainable code, and author architectural design documents
  • Work with product and engineering leadership to identify opportunities in the game space that will require or benefit from new service development or refinement
  • Coordinate work and maintain relationships with partner service teams across the Riot Games ecosystem
  • Be on rotational on-call for live product support and operational assessment
  • Work collaboratively with non technical customers to accomplish deliverables

 

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of deep hands-on programming experiences building high-availability services using Java or Go.
  • Experience with maintaining live services coupled with handling emergent and on-call issues
  • Experience developing product features, including gathering requirements, designing scalable, production-ready architecture, and breaking down the project into smaller work items
  • Understand software performance and influence latency in online games

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience playing League of Legends
  • Have a working knowledge of Machine Learning

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to 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 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.

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