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Manager, Software Engineering, Core Services - VALORANT

Riot Games, Inc.

Los Angeles, USA

Full-time

Senior · 5+ years experience

Onsite

USD 192500-269400 yearly / year

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Responsibilities:

Manage a team of 5-10 Software Engineers across experience levels.
Ensure VALORANT Players receive a consistently great services experience in Riot and Tencent regions.
Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, comfortable contributing across all phases of the product lifecycle, including implementation.
Develop a technical vision for your team, working with production and product partners to ensure consistency with overall product goals. Communicate this vision to your team clearly.
Advocate for Players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Coordinate with other teams across Riot and Tencent working on Services technology.
Ensure high technical quality of what your team produces. Establish mechanisms to ensure your engineers have room to invent while maintaining a technical backstop for them.
Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team. Find and surface issues, opportunities, and address them head-on. Celebrate wins.
Coach and develop your engineering team to grow in their roles, develop technical skills, and improve their effectiveness.
Champion and model Riot’s values, setting the tone for your team and peers.
Participate in your team’s on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years professional experience as a software engineer working in services development roles.
2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team as an Engineering Manager.
Professional experience driving technical direction and influencing architecture within a team.
Expertise with C#, Java, Golang, or similar language(s).
Professional experience with Lean or Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies.
Professional experience building large-scale external customer-facing backend systems, game services, or cloud platforms.

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