As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. We work with both new and current technology, overcoming high-volume obstacles and delivering value to players.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Merchant Guild team, you'll report to the team's Engineering Manager. You will own and develop core back-end services and player-facing front-ends that provide engaging store, loot, events, and missions experiences for League of Legends. You will work across technology stacks to achieve reliable and performant player experiences. You will exercise your collaboration skills to work in a multidisciplinary group, being a trusted technology partner to producers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new services, manage existing services, and author software design documents.
- Develop/test/deploy/maintain existing and new services.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation
- Improve the team's monitoring and alerting capabilities.
- Be a mentor and career guide to junior engineers, and participate in hiring and interviewing processes.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience working closely with Product Owners / Development Managers / Designers to effectively prioritize work.
- Experience building web applications or services in a client-server architecture
- 3+ years of deep programming experience with Java.
- Experience developing fault tolerant, distributed systems including analysis, design and work breakdown, and leading the development across multiple contributors
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience developing and operating global large scale services.
- Experience working with game development.
- Experience working across multiple teams.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and modern JS.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience defining software engineering best practices within your team, including design reviews, coding standards, code reviews, tools improvements, source control management, build processes, and testing
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. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:
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.
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