Responsibilities:
1. Lead, identify and build improvements to allow League of Legends to more sustainably maintain rotating game modes.
2. Understand the backend services powering League of Legends and lead technical decisions to best use them.
3. Lead the automation of aspects of creating and running existing rotating game modes.
4. Lead, design and develop features and UI in the League of Legends game engine using C++.
5. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams in Sydney and the US (including Game Designers, Artists, Animators, Quality, and Producers) to shape player experiences
6. Give feedback to designers and artists on the technical tradeoffs of their designs and ideas
7. Give feedback to product leaders about product direction and player affinity
8. Collaborate with and mentor engineering teammates
Required Qualifications:
9. 8+ yrs of collective professional experience building applications or games in a client-server architecture.
10. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable field or equivalent experience
11. Experience working closely with non-engineering collaborators to deliver value
12. Experience building games in C++.
13. Experience working with complex code bases
For this role, you'll succeed through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritises the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!
Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.
If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment
Our Perks:
At Riot we strongly believe in work/life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle.
We also believe that work should be fun, we have a LAN gaming room, the latest consoles, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!).
And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:
14. Medical, Dental and Vision Stipend
15. Wellbeing Reimbursement
16. We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits
17. Employee Assistance Program
18. Learning and Development opportunities