Riot Software Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work on multiple broader domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work with both our technology, creating creative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to provide player value.

As a Software Engineer on the Legends of Runeterra (LoR) Metagame Systems (MGS) team, you will design and build features in LoR’s Around-The-Game experience. This includes systems such as Onboarding, Progression, Rewards, and Quests. On this team, you'll be:

Player-Focused: You have player empathy, and you want to find solutions that make players excited to earn new experiences through gameplay. You want to ensure that when players spend money in our game they feel good before, during, and after their purchase.

A Collaborator: You want to work elbow-to-elbow with members of other disciplines (like Art and Game Design) to build a whole experience. You are excited to see problems from a different point of view, and make hard trade-offs to meet multiple goals.

A Tool Builder: You’re passionate about empowering Artists and Designers to accomplish their ideas in the game with minimal engineering assistance. You’re happy to listen to them and understand their needs, on the way to building high-quality tools that empower them in their work.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with diverse teams (including Game Designers, Artists, Animators, and Producers) to shape player experiences
• Implement features in the Unity engine using C#
• Modify C# microservices to support Unity service calls for new features
• Write unit tests and integration tests to ensure high-standard code
• Deliver code to players in a weekly release

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ collective years professional experience across the following areas (e.g., 2 year game dev + 1 year Unity dev = 3 years)
• Game Development
• Unity Development
• UI/UX Systems design and architecture
• Experience building Content Tools and Pipelines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable field
• OO experience in C#, Java, or C++
• Familiarity with unit and integration testing of software

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.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).