Remote Backend Engineer - Social & Store, R&D

SportsTechJobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off policy

Parental leave

Wellbeing reimbursement

Learning and development opportunities

Snacks and gaming perks

Job summary

Riot Games is looking for a Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D project focusing on backend systems powering social and store experiences. You will build reliable, scalable client-server interactions and support live services with strong observability and cost optimization.

You will collaborate with UI, product, production, and platform teams, participate in code reviews, and help design APIs and tooling for game operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend systems or game services.
• Experience with scalable, production-ready architectures.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, Java or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services.
• Own features from service implementation to in-game integration.
• Collaborate with product managers to identify and implement new backend services.

Skills

Golang

C++

Java

AWS

Observability

Distributed systems

Client-server architecture

React

Next.js

Security

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

Riot Games is looking for a Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D project focusing on backend systems powering social and store experiences. You will build reliable, scalable client-server interactions and support live services with strong observability and cost optimization.

You will collaborate with UI, product, production, and platform teams, participate in code reviews, and help design APIs and tooling for game operations.