Senior Software Engineer, Riot Games
TechOps, League of Legends
$161.5-227k
+ Incentive compensation + Equity
Player-focused game development platform
Posted today
Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$161.5-227k
+ Incentive compensation + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional experience as a software engineer using C++
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience working with non-engineering collaborators to deliver value
- Experience with game development
- Experience with Lean or Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc)
Desirable
- Experience leading technical designs and technical decisions
- Familiarity with game development engines such as Unity, Unreal, and/or Proprietary engines
- Familiarity with building tools and pipelines for content development
- Familiarity with Lua, Python
- Experience mentoring fellow developers
What the job involves
- 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
- As a Senior Software Engineer on League of Legends’ Cosmetics TechOps team, you will lead, design, and develop new features in the League of Legends game engine that enable our content creators to deliver exciting new personalization experiences to players
- You will exercise your collaboration skills to partner with artists, technical artists, producers, and designers to build new tools and workflows that expand Cosmetics’ content portfolio
- You will mentor engineering, tech art, and tech design teammates
- You will report to the team's Engineering Manager, and work in a hybrid environment from LAX
- Collaborate within a cross-disciplinary team (including Game Designers, Artists, Technical Artists, and Producers) to help deliver exciting new cosmetics experiences
- Design and build in-game cosmetics features in the League of Legends game engine using C++, content tools, and game scripting
- Make design and implementation decisions that inform the technical direction of a project
- Develop and improve tooling to support content creator’s authoring workflows
- Collaborate with and provide mentorship to engineering, tech art, and tech design teammates
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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