Staff Software Engineer, Riot Games

• 6+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years leading and building rich, performant, secure user-facing applications
• Expertise in building UI using either Javascript, CSS and web frameworks (such as Ember or a similar framework), or C++/C# within game engines
• Willingness to invest in growth in both web frameworks and C++ (in-engine) is required

Desirable

• Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas, but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains
• As a Staff Software Engineer (UI/Frontend) on Teamfight Tactics monetization team, you will work on a multi-disciplinary team to help build and ship new features and cosmetic content to surprise and delight our players
• This role reports to an Engineering Manager on the Teamfight Tactics team
• Wear multiple hats as you own and lead, and contribute as an IC, on high-impact, player-facing feature development projects
• Ensure the team is adhering to engineering excellence, including: system design, code quality (performance, scalability, modularity, security, and so on), documentation, and live operations
• Mentor and level up everyone around you
• Take full ownership of the product spaces you operate in. Contribute to technical strategies for short and long term. Influence and drive alignment between other engineering and production leadership
• Build UI screens and features using both Web-based frontend frameworks and Riot’s proprietary engine
• Work within a complex ecosystem of platform services teams to define and consume APIs and SDKs
• Collaborate with various disciplines, including UI/UX designers, game designers, artists to design and implement rich UIs features
• Build tooling to help create and launch new cosmetic content sustainably to our players
• Join the on-call LiveOps rotation to support our live game services