Staff Software Engineer (UI) - League of Legends

6 Months ago • 6-10 Years • UI/UX Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Riot Games seeks a Staff Software Engineer (UI) for League of Legends in Los Angeles. This role involves building and improving in-game experiences, focusing on navigation, progression, social features, identity, and shopping. Responsibilities include partnering with designers and artists, leading technical design and implementation of UI systems, integrating with backend services, ensuring code quality, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to the UI framework's evolution. The ideal candidate possesses 6+ years of game development experience, 4+ years in C++ UI development, and a deep understanding of UI/software design patterns. The role requires collaboration across teams and implementing best practices, prioritizing player experience.
Must have:
  • 6+ years game dev experience
  • 4+ years professional C++ experience
  • Deep UI development expertise
  • Shipping software at scale
  • Cross-discipline collaboration
  • Software engineering best practices
  • Player empathy
Good to have:
  • League of Legends experience
  • UI experience in Unity or Unreal
Perks:
  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Riot’s mission is to put players at the center of everything we do. We do this by continuing to evolve and deliver new experiences to players with games like Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot is also expanding into the world of music/multimedia with the release of our animated series Arcane and music from KDA and True Damage. In short - it’s an exciting time to be a Rioter.

As a Staff Software Engineer in League of Legends, you’ll report to your team’s Engineering Manager in our office in Los Angeles. You will work on building around game experiences for League of Legends PC, such as approachable navigation, progression, social, identity, and shopping experiences. You will work on  player retention improvement efforts, as well as features to improve engagement and monetization of existing players. 

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with UX designers and UI artists to create awesome around game experiences
  • Lead technical design and implementation of systems leveraging your subject matter expertise in UI development
  • Work closely with backend engineers to integrate experiences with various complex microservices
  • Ensure exceptional code quality by adhering to engineering excellence which includes: code maintainability, quality, monitoring, code reviews, and documentation
  • Provide mentorship to other engineers on your team on UI development best practices
  • Give input on the evolution of the existing proprietary UI development framework used to build UI in League of Legends

Required Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of game development experience
  • 4+ years of professional experience in C++
  • Deep subject matter expertise building UI in games, including thorough understanding of common UI and software design patterns (e.g. MVC, MVVM)
  • Experience shipping software at scale that deploys on a range of different platforms
  • Experience collaborating across disciplines (e.g. Design, Art, QA, Production) to create solutions
  • Experience implementing software engineering best practices within your team, including design reviews, coding standards, code reviews, tools improvements, source control management, build processes, and testing
  • Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in making tech decisions
  • BS in Computer Science, or proven understanding of Computer Science fundamentals

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience playing League of Legends
  • Experience building UI in various game engines like Unity or Unreal

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 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 for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and . 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 and our ongoing work to build the .

 

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. 

 

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