Senior Software Engineer, Player Experience Tools & Services - Publishing Platform

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas, but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Software Engineers, we work with both established and emerging technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver value to our players. As a Senior Software Engineer on Player Experience Tools & Services, you will own and evolve the systems and tools that enable Riot’s content publishing ecosystem. This includes developing scalable backend services alongside owning the frontend architecture of internal tools and UI surfaces that our content creators rely on to create, manage, and deliver content at global scale. Our content pipeline consists of a CMS and services to deliver content that is distributed across Riot’s ecosystem including websites, game clients (such as League of Legends), the Riot Client, Riot mobile app, news articles, and game patch notes. You will ensure these systems are reliable, efficient, and extensible, enabling the Content Publishing team to operate quickly while delivering high-quality content experiences to millions of players worldwide. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Content Publishing Experience team within Riot’s Publishing Platform, Player Experience organization.

Requirements

Full stack Software Engineer, solid knowledge of frontend technologies and services
6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with at least 2+ years in a senior-level role leading cross-team initiatives
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable experience in software development
Expertise with modern full stack development, including Java, React, TypeScript, CSS, and Node.js, with a track record of architecting scalable solutions
Proven ability to drive technical design, set architectural direction, and lead delivery of cross-discipline projects spanning 3-6+ months
Strengths in collaboration, communication, technical requirements gathering, and determining technical strategy
Experience navigating and contributing to large, complex codebases in live or production environments
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, web infrastructure, and tooling for automated testing and deployment

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with customization of Content Management Systems (e.g. Sanity, Wordpress, Drupal, etc.)
Experience working with serverless computing (e.g. Netlify functions, AWS lambdas)
Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance, and maintainability
Experience working with UX and visual designers

Responsibilities

Write web applications (Typescript, ReactJS) and integrations with 3rd party tools
Maintain and evolve distributed services used by millions of players
Collaborate with technical leadership and peers to break down work and build important features
Maintain an appropriate level of quality by writing tests, using CI/CD, and following software development best practices.
Mentor other engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team.
Participate in technical phone screens and onsite panels to help grow engineering team
Be on a rotational on-call schedule for live product and internal customer support