Principal Software Engineer - League of Legends , UI Tooling
Riot Games3 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Develop UI framework foundations and authoring tools for League of Legends.
- Collaborate with technology owners, content teams, engineers, designers, and artists across the organization.
- Contribute to technical discussions and designs overseen by the team.
- Own the software lifecycle for frameworks, platforms, and tools, including development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Drive the delivery of features and workflows that improve partner effectiveness and quality of life.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Participate in the team’s support rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of deep hands-on experience with C/C++ across several use cases and platforms.
- At least 5 years of video game industry experience involving multiple game development UIs and an example of a shipped game.
- Experience driving several organization-sized development efforts with one-year-or-longer scopes, including requirements gathering, planning, and testing.
- Experience maintaining software development best practices covering design and code reviews, coding standards, source control management, testing, delivery performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Experience working with a custom, internally developed game engine and tooling.
- Expertise with UX artist workflows.
- A collaborative spirit, player empathy, and a demonstrated personal relationship with games.
Benefits
- Los Angeles headquarters-based work arrangement.
- Open paid time off and flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation policies.
About Riot Games
Riot Games develops and publishes online multiplayer games for PC and mobile, including League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. The company operates free-to-play titles monetized via in-game purchases and runs global esports leagues and events around its franchises. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent with offices worldwide.