Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Teamfight Tactics - Store & Cosmetics (C++)

Location: Based in Singapore; full relocation support is provided.

Company

Riot Games' Singapore studio develops player experiences for Teamfight Tactics and other Riot games in partnership with the Los Angeles headquarters.

What you will do

• Lead the Store & Content Distribution and Cosmetics Engineering teams, comprising 13 people.
• Set technical goals, ownership, delivery expectations, strategy, and roadmaps for TFT's Store and cosmetics ecosystem.
• Coach engineers and emerging managers, support growth, manage performance, and build leadership capacity.
• Shape team structure, hiring, staffing, and resource allocation across current and future needs.
• Guide reliable Store experiences, shared-service integrations, Unreal Engine systems, tools, and content pipelines.
• Partner with Product, Art, Design, Production, and central technology teams while improving testing, CI/CD, developer experience, and creator workflows.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial games industry experience with client systems, UI, gameplay, or tools.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including leadership of engineering groups larger than 10 people.
• Strong C++ development experience and experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary game engines.
• Experience shipping game UI integrated with backend services and/or building content-creation tools, asset pipelines, or cosmetic authoring systems.
• Ability to review technical designs and guide performance, reliability, maintainability, architecture, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience developing senior engineers and making technical, hiring, staffing, and roadmap decisions across locations.

Nice to have

• Experience with live-service or free-to-play games, Store, commerce, monetization, virtual goods, purchasing, or entitlement systems.
• Experience with game UI patterns such as MVVM and server-authoritative services.
• Experience with animation, cinematics, VFX, and artist-extensible workflows.
• Experience with Unreal Engine UI tools including UMG, UI Materials, and MVVM.
• Experience with Unreal Engine content-authoring and editor tools including Niagara, Sequencer, Blueprints, and Slate.

Culture & Benefits

• Full relocation support for the Singapore-based role.
• Health insurance for the employee, spouse, and children.
• Open paid time off and retirement benefits with company matching.
• Life insurance, parental leave, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Play Fund for learning more about players and the gaming community, plus matched donations to non-profits.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and cover letter.