As a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) within the Player Immersion & Expression (PIE) initiative, you'll report into the team’s Engineering Manager. You will take product ideas around discoverability and acquisition of content and bring them to life. The mission for the Player Immersion & Expression (PIE) initiative on League of Legends is to "create immersive offerings of expression, commemoration, and delight to amplify player experiences in League". One strategy, among others, that we use to work towards this mission is through creating feature-rich content. But it doesn't stop there. We need players to discover and acquire this content at the first source of inspiration! This is where your expertise comes in.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) for League of Legends you’ll contribute to the following areas depending on your interests and experience:

Develop and test player content experiences in the League of Legends client
Contribute to architecture requirements and design
Design and enhance League microservices
Write unit and integration tests
Code reviews
Enhance build and deployment tooling
Improve product visibility through telemetry and analytics

In time, you'll provide mentorship to other engineers, create and develop documentation for ongoing support, and participate in an on-call rotation to provide support high availability for our products.

Required Qualifications

Insight into applying to Riot Engineering is available on our discipline page

5+ years experience as a full stack software engineer, with at least 3 years in web-based development
Experience in designing, launching & maintaining and supporting production UI or microservices with large user-bases or that exist as components of larger, more complex applications.
Experience implementing best-practices in software design, code reviews, code linting and analysis, automated testing, continuous integration.
Expertise in operational best-practices, implementing automated builds, software packaging, automated deployments, logging, monitoring, automated-alerting
As comfortable communicating in distributed teams as with people sitting right next to you.
You will visit our Los Angeles HQ approximately two to four times a year for around four to five weeks in total.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Webpack, ES6, Dust, Ember, React, and SASS
Experience with Node.js and Java
Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Riak
Some experience with Docker, Terraform, and Ansible

Our Perks

Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
Open paid time off
Retirement benefits with company matching
Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
Play funds so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits

Let's Thrive Together

Because together we are better

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. We know that fresh and varied perspectives will make us better at what we do, so however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we’re excited to hear from you. Don’t be discouraged if you feel you don’t fully meet every single one of the requirements for a particular role, there’s always room for growth at Riot. If you spot a role that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning, we are waiting to hear from you!