Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month.

What you'll do

• Develop and support our workflow services used by millions of players
• Support our suite of mission-critical Java, Kotlin, and Node services at a globally distributed scale
• Partner with product owners and technical leads to build and operate features end-to-end
• Provide high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
• Invest in team's complete ownership of our products by participating in on-call rotation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role (i.e. software, systems, architecture)
• Expertise in Java, Kotlin, and some familiarity with Node.js / Typescript.
• Experience with the following: microservices architecture, client/service application architecture, API architecture and development

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with 'Infrastructure as Code' and tooling like Terraform, Docker and Jenkins
• Familiarity with Cloud Platform providers like AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with web security concepts (OWASP security models, cookies, CORS)
• Familiarity with client / full-stack development
• Expertise operating distributed services at high scale

Benefits

• 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
• 401k with company match