Software Engineer - League of Legends

Riot Games Services; Dublin; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Retirement benefits with company match

Open paid time off policy

Descripción de la vacante

Riot Games is seeking a Software Engineer to join the League of Legends Purchase Points team. The role focuses on building and improving tools, services, and pipelines to configure, validate, test, schedule, and ship Store, Battle Pass, Loot, and other live content across environments and regions.

You will collaborate with content coordinators, Product, QA, and engineers to reduce manual steps, catch issues earlier, and ensure reliable releases.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience as a full stack software engineer.
• Experience working with Python.
• Experience developing software with C++.
• Experience building internal tools, content-management or configuration systems or workflows with validation and testing.

Responsabilidades

• Build and improve interfaces for creating and updating content configurations.
• Add schema validation, previews, and automated checks to catch configuration errors before release.
• Support localization and asset workflows, and testing and promoting content across environments.
• Improve scheduling, publishing, change visibility, and recovery for live content updates.
• Collaborate with content coordinators, Product, QA, and engineers to streamline processes.
• Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to on-call rotation for the team.

Conocimientos

Full stack development

Python

C++

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Internal tools development

Descripción del empleo

As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in multiple broader domains. We work with exciting technology, overcoming high-volume obstacles and delivering value to players.

As a Software Engineer on the League of Legends Purchase Points team, you'll report to the team's Engineering Manager. You’ll build and improve the tools, services, and pipelines that help us configure, validate, test, schedule, and ship Store, Battle Pass, Loot, and other live content. You’ll partner with content coordinators and engineers to reduce manual work, catch configuration issues earlier, and improve confidence in releases across environments and regions. You will work across technology stacks to achieve reliable and performant player experiences. You will exercise your skills to work in a diverse group, being a trusted technology partner to product owners.

Responsibilities:

• Building interfaces for creating and updating content configurations.
• Adding schema validation, previews, and automated checks to catch configuration errors before release.
• Supporting localization and asset workflows, and making it easier to test and promote content between environments.
• Improving scheduling, publishing, change visibility, and recovery for live content updates.
• Partnering with content coordinators, Product, QA, and engineers to identify manual or error-prone steps and improve them.
• Write unit and integration tests
• Code reviews
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience as a full stack software engineer
• Experience working with Python
• Experience developing software with C++
• Experience building internal tools, content-management or configuration systems or workflows with validation and testing

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in test automation, operational best practices, implementing automated builds, software packaging, automated deployments, logging, monitoring, and automated alerting
• Experience shipping and operating a live game or other globally distributed consumer product
• Familiarity with League of Legends or strong motivation to learn the game and its player experience

Success in this role:

• For this role, you’ll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on our players, who are the customers of your work.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

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.
• Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match.
• Double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations.

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.