Staff Software Engineer, Riot Games

• 6+ years of deep hands-on programming experiences building services using Java
• Experience designing architectures for large distributed systems comprising multiple services while maintaining high throughput and scale
• Experience with maintaining live services coupled with handling emergent and on-call issues
• Experience developing large product features, including gathering requirements, designing scalable, production-ready architecture, breaking down the project into smaller work items, and leading the development across multiple contributors
• Experience as a tech lead or equivalent role, helping grow other engineers and fostering an inclusive team culture
• 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

Desirable

• Lead a team of engineers to design and build the services required to support Teamfight Tactics
• Work with product 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 League of Legends and Riot Games ecosystem
• Ensure the team is adhering to engineering excellence which includes: code maintainability, quality, monitoring, operational excellence, and documentation. Provides and champions "definition of done" to their team
• Be on rotational on-call for live product support and operational assessment
• Work with team leadership to develop opportunities for engineers to grow their skills
• Provide meaningful code reviews for other members of the team
• Work collaboratively with non technical customers to accomplish deliverables
• You will report to an Engineering Manager on the Teamfight Tactics team