About the role
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager on the League of Legends Alternate Play Modes theme, you will lead and contribute to an engineering pod that delivers new game modes to the League ecosystem for the future of League of Legends. You will maintain and help drive meaningful changes to the list of game modes, modernizing them for the future of the game. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for the Alternate Play Modes theme and work in a hybrid environment from the Los Angeles office. You will be tasked with building the long-term success for your organization by helping define the product vision, mentoring and growing talent, and being accountable for delivering results.
Responsibilities
- Manage a small group of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and career support.
- Contribute directly to implementation, with a focus on UI and player-facing gameplay systems.
- Uphold engineering best practices in maintainability, scalability, testing, and documentation.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and artists to deliver meaningful changes to the list of rotating game modes.
- Partner with other engineering groups to ensure technical consistency and integration across League of Legends.
Qualifications
- Professional Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Leadership Experience: 2+ years in engineering management or a tech lead role in game development.
- Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in C++.
- Experience with large, complex codebases.
- Product Experience: Proven track record of building and shipping UI/UX features in games or player-facing gameplay systems.
- Soft Skills:
- Comfortable balancing leadership responsibilities while remaining actively hands-on with coding.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary Range: $192,500.00 - $269,400.00 USD (Los Angeles only).
- Incentives: Incentive compensation and equity.
- Retirement: 401k with company match.
- Health and Insurance: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Disability: Short and long-term disability.
- Leave and Flexibility:
- Open paid time off (PTO) policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
Company Environment and Compliance
- Culture: Riot Games prioritizes work/life balance, puts players first, and focuses on creating collaborative teams where unique perspectives are empowered.
- Equal Opportunity: Riot Games provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.
- Background Checks (Los Angeles): Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, core duties that may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories include:
- Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data.
- Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors.
- Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks.
- Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters.