Software Engineer - Monetisation League of Legends

As a Software Engineer on the League of Legends Dublin team you will own and develop core player-facing front-ends that provide engaging content experiences for League of Legends. 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

• Develop and test player content experiences in League of Legends
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams
• Give feedback to designers and artists on the technical tradeoffs of their designs and ideas
• Work with guidance from team technical leadership on design and implementation
• Write unit and integration tests
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions and technical planning
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation
• Enhance build and deployment tooling
• Improve product visibility through telemetry and analytics

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience 
• Proficiency in C++
• Exposure to or experience with backend systems
• Experience in test automation, operational best practices, implementing automated builds, software packaging, automated deployments, logging, monitoring, and automated alerting
• Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills

Desired:

• Familiarity with building game content tools and pipelines
• Experience working with game engines
• Knowledge of EmberJS or other web frameworks (ReactJS, AngularJS)
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern JS
• Experience building RESTful microservices in Java
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL
• Experience developing fault tolerant, distributed systems including analysis, design and work breakdown
• Experience working with Product Owners / Development Managers / Designers
• Experience working across multiple teams

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:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland

Job ID: 7391799

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-12T23:30:12