About the company
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 new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support our client-side SDKs running on console, desktop, and mobile used by millions of players
- Develop and support Unreal plugins that interface with the client-side SDK and Riot's Platform Services
- Build high quality and performant client-side SDKs used by all of Riot’s games to leverage critical features like network connectivity, messaging, and game engine integrations
- Be an individual contributor on the team who creates reference designs, tackles challenging and ambiguous technical solutions, conducts architectural and code reviews
- Design, code, and improve release processes for the products and solutions produced on your team
- Balance short-term technical trade-offs and with long-term technical needs to ensure we are building stable, operational, extensible services and SDKs
- Develop high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
- Partner with product owners and technical leads to build and operate features end-to-end including technical discovery, product development, and production release
- Invest in team’s complete ownership of our products by participating in on-call rotation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 4+ years deep hands-on programming experience as a software engineer and proficiency in C++ 14 or newer
- 2+ years hands-on programming experience with Unreal Engine 4.2x/5.x building tools, plugins, or gameplay components.
- Experience contributing to a large code base with millions of active users
- Expertise with continuous development and deployments of large-scale systems
- Experience defining and delivering technical solutions to technical users
Conditions
- 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.