Senior Software Engineer of Services, Riot Games
League of Legends
$161.5-227k
+ Equity
Player-focused game development platform
Open for applications
Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$161.5-227k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- Experience playing League of Legends
- Have a working knowledge of Machine Learning
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Riot Games has grown into one of the world’s most prominent online and mobile game developers, due in large part to the success of its 2009 flagship title League of Legends which hosts just under seventy million users every month.
Riot is riding the wave of online gaming growth, having made a well timed switch from PC-only into mobile-based gaming, as capitalising on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.
However, adding further titles to its resume will be key to building on its success, as League of Legends was its only offering for the best part of a decade. Since being acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in 2011, the company has grown significantly in Asian markets, opening its Shanghai Game Studio in 2021 and expanding its China Game Studio Group in 2022. These two hubs will help Riot Games make further inroads in a country where PC gaming is already huge and continues to grow.
Regardless of League of Legends' success both online and in live arenas, the company nevertheless experienced a round of layoffs internationally that amounted to 11% of its workforce. Pair that with legal troubles in 2024 concerning the company’s partnership with now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and Riot Games appears to be in a period of transition. Thanks to the strength of its gaming products, however, Riot will no doubt maintain a comfortable position within the gaming world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2009
$8m
SERIES C
Jul 2008
$7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available
- Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations
- Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Brandon Beck
(Co-Chairman)Having studied at the University of Southern California, they worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. they left this role in September 2006 to co-found Riot Games, where they served initially as co-CEO.
Marc Merrill
(Co-Chairman)After a degree at the University of Southern California, they worked as a U.S. Bank Analyst and a Manager of Advanstar Communications. They co-founded Riot Games with Brandon in September 2006, alongside being a Principal of NaHCo3 since 2016.
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