Senior Software Engineer (Node/React)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Node/React): Building and maintaining internal enterprise tools, services, and automations that streamline core business processes with an accent on enterprise integrations and API development. Focus on translating complex workflows into scalable software solutions and improving operational efficiency across the enterprise.

Location: Los Angeles, USA only

Salary: $161,500–$227,000 USD

Company

Riot's Enterprise Technology organization builds secure, reliable, and scalable internal systems to enable Rioters and keep the company running smoothly.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain internal enterprise tools, services, and automations.
• Partner with system owners and domain leads to translate business workflows into technical designs.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of integration-heavy systems, including APIs and automation frameworks.
• Develop software with emphasis on reliability, security, and maintainability, applying best practices in testing and continuous delivery.
• Author and maintain technical design documents and operational runbooks.
• Participate in an engineering on-call rotation, diagnosing production issues and driving root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
• Deep hands-on programming experience in Node, Typescript, and React.
• Experience with modern frameworks (e.g., NextJS, NestJS).
• Experience building RESTful and GraphQL APIs, working with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., Redis) databases.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure and deployment: AWS, containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience investigating business problems and providing sustainable software solutions.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices: automated testing, code reviews, monitoring/observability, security, and performance.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in an agile/scrum team.

Nice to have

• Enterprise software development experience, including integrations with enterprise-grade APIs or platforms.
• Prior work in B2B software, developer platforms, or internal tooling ecosystems.
• Strong technical knowledge of enterprise platforms (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow).
• Experience delivering AI (traditional or generative) or advanced automation solutions at scale.
• Experience with LLM platforms (OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini).

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work/life balance with open paid time off.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.