Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay - League of Legends Cosmetics

Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer on League of Legends’ Cosmetics TechOps team, you will lead, design, and develop new features in the League of Legends game engine that enable our content creators to deliver exciting new personalization experiences to players. You will exercise your collaboration skills to partner with artists, technical artists, producers, and designers to build new tools and workflows that expand Cosmetics’ content portfolio. You will mentor engineering, tech art, and tech design teammates. You will report to the team's Engineering Manager, and work in a hybrid environment from LAX.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a cross-disciplinary team (including Game Designers, Artists, Technical Artists, and Producers) to help deliver exciting new cosmetics experiences
• Design and build in-game cosmetics features in the League of Legends game engine using C++, content tools, and game scripting
• Make design and implementation decisions that inform the technical direction of a project
• Develop and improve tooling to support content creator’s authoring workflows
• Collaborate with and provide mentorship to engineering, tech art, and tech design teammates

Required Qualifications:

• 3-5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer using C++
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience working with non-engineering collaborators to deliver value
• Experience with game development
• Experience with Lean or Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Understanding of League of Legends gameplay and mechanics

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience leading technical designs and technical decisions
• Familiarity with game development engines such as Unity, Unreal, and/or Proprietary engines
• Familiarity with building tools and pipelines for content development
• Familiarity with Lua, Python
• Experience mentoring fellow developers

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

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.

 

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