Software Engineer Trainee - League of Legends (Contract)

Established in 2020, the Singapore Studio is Riot’s second international game development studio. Riot has been expanding our footprint in Asia and accelerating our talent growth to develop games that deliver great experiences to our players. Our mission is to “scale Riot’s games to hyper-serve players.”

We partner with our LA headquarters on game development for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Legends of Runeterra. We’re also building teams for VALORANT and 2XKO, our take on a fighting game. The Singapore Studio is seeking talented, passionate craft experts with backgrounds in all areas of game development to build games that make it better to be a player. 

We’re focused on working together to promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and inclusivity, so everyone can be their best while we boldly pursue games.

That's where you come in.

As a Software Engineer Trainee (Contract) on the League of Legends Champ Tech Team, you will get hands-on experience developing player-facing features and cosmetics on products played by 180 million monthly players.

You will get the opportunity to work within a highly collaborative team, alongside senior developers, allowing you to learn from the best while perfecting your craft in the most unique way possible! 

You will report to the team’s Engineering Manager and work closely under the mentorship of the senior developers in our team.

Please note that Riot Games does not offer relocation packages for this position. You need to be able to work legally in Singapore, without Riot Games’ sponsorship, to be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of the Champion Tech Team that delivers cosmetics features to players in a bi-weekly release schedule
• Work with external vendors and maintain our content delivery pipelines.
• Adhere to engineering excellence which includes: code maintainability, quality, monitoring, operational excellence and documentation.
• Participate in our code reviews for other members of the team.
• Collaborate with non technical partners to ship value to players.

Required Qualifications:

• Be able to legally work in Singapore
• Pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields
• C++ fluency
• Clear understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Clear understanding of engineering practices & design methods
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well in a team

Desired Qualifications:

• Graduating Students preferred.
• Some Experience working on a Video Game (as a Hobby or in a School project)
• Some Experience working with Scripts (Python, Lua, Monoscript, C#)