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

Job Description

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'll enhance tools that our content creators use to inspire players to engage deeply within Riot's publishing ecosystem. Our Sanity CMS captures content that will be distributed to our players through multiple websites, our game clients (such as League of Legends), our Riot mobile app, news articles and game patch notes. You'll enable our Content Publishing team to work efficiently to create experiences for players around the globe. This position reports to the engineering manager of the Content Publishing Experience team within Riot's Player Platform, Player Experience organization.

Responsibilities:
• Write web applications (Typescript, ReactJS) and integrations with 3rd party tools
• 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 in your areas of expertise
• 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
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable experience in software development
• 4+ years of industry experience
• Experience writing JavaScript (ReactJS, TypeScript) for web applications and end-to-end tests
• Strengths in collaboration, communication, technical requirements gathering, and determining technical strategy
Desired Qualifications:
• Familiarity with customization of Content Management Systems (e.g. Sanity, Wordpress, Drupal, etc.)
• Experience working with serverless computing (e.g. Netlify functions, AWS lambdas)
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience working with UX and visual designers
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
Our Perks:
Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $161,500.00 - $227,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-86763x-18-97-14-90-42 in your application.