Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

Riot Engineers bring deep expertise in specific technical areas while embracing opportunities to work across broader domains. As a Manager, Software Engineering, you’ll lead from the front — working alongside your team through every phase of the software development and operations lifecycle. You’ll combine hands-on technical leadership with mentorship and coaching to drive both team growth and product excellence.

As the Manager, Software Engineering,  in the Publishing Platform’s Publishing Engagement team, you’ll lead the engineers who design, build, and operate platform services that enable game content delivery and power player-facing experiences across and beyond games. You’ll partner with game developers across Riot, central technology groups, and legal and business teams in Korea to make smart decisions, maintain a high quality bar, and operate efficiently in service of players in Korea and around the world.

Your deep understanding of technical systems and engineering workflows will help shape how the team builds, operates, and scales our services. You’ll participate in key technical decisions, guide documentation and process improvements, and coach engineers to deliver cohesive, multi-platform experiences that power all of Riot’s games. Your leadership will enable the team to operate with clarity, discipline, and agility — staying aligned and delivering lasting impact for players.

You will report to the Sr Manager, Software Engineering,  who oversees multiple teams under the Meta Game Services initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & People Management
• Manage a team of 4–5 Software Engineers; coach, mentor, and support their growth while driving strong performance and positive results
• Own the interviewing and onboarding process for new engineering team members
• Build healthy relationships with engineering/QA teams across Riot globally to foster collaboration and shared learning
• Technical Leadership & Hands-on Involvement
• Stay hands-on with the team’s technology, overseeing technical design and deliverables in partnership with the team’s technical leadership
• Engage regularly with the codebase through reviews and non-critical contributions to stay close to the team’s work
• Drive the technical vision and roadmap by collaborating closely with engineers — contributing to design reviews, aligning priorities, and ensuring the right people and skills are in place to deliver results
• Maintain accountability for the technical health and long-term sustainability of the team’s products
• Execution & Cross-functional Collaboration
• Lead the breakdown and execution of multi-month projects, partnering across disciplines and other engineering teams to deliver impactful outcomes
• Collaborate with Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Engineering/QA Leads within the team and across Meta Game Services and Publishing Platform to align on execution plans and priorities
• Align with service teams within Meta Game Services and across the Publishing Platform organization to drive consistency in tech standards, tooling, and best practices

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer, including hands-on experience delivering live or shipped web applications
• 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead
• Deep front-end expertise with TypeScript/Javascript, React, CSS-in-JS, and modern frameworks like Next.js
• Extensive back-end experience with Java and Spring Boot, combined with strong fundamentals in software engineering (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, OOP) and experience designing scalable systems using RESTful APIs, event-driven microservices, and modern web architecture patterns
• Proven track record of improving engineering discipline — driving better documentation, thoughtful tech design processes, and structured proposals for technical improvements, with a strong understanding of the full product lifecycle from design to deployment and operations, and the ability to apply MVP principles effectively
• Able to clearly communicate technical concepts and decisions across disciplines, helping align engineers, designers, and product managers
• Experience managing engineers and actively participating in their growth and development
• Experience recruiting candidates and growing an engineering team
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and software at a high scale
• Experience operating and maintaining live services, including handling emergent issues and on-call troubleshooting
• Fluency in Korean and professional working proficiency in English, as the position involves being based in Seoul while engaging with global teams across Riot

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (such as AWS, GCP), using containers and orchestration (such as Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (such as Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Netlify)
• Experience with relational databases (such as MySQL)
• Experience with event driven architectures and technologies (such as Kafka)

Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.

우리 팀(프로젝트)을 소개합니다. 

Experience Engineering Dept. 는 Krafton 게임의 유저들에게 웹 환경에서 새로운 경험을 줄 수 있도록 프로덕트와 서비스를 개발하는 조직입니다.
담당하는 프로젝트 KCN(KRAFTON Creator Network) 은 크래프톤의 게임 IP와 글로벌 콘텐츠 크리에이터를 연결하는 전사 통합 크리에이터 마케팅 플랫폼입니다.

KCN 백엔드 팀은 이 플랫폼의 서버 사이드를 전담하며, 마이크로서비스 기반의 백엔드 시스템을 설계·구축·운영합니다.
주요 기술 스택은 Kotlin / Spring Boot 3.x, MongoDB, Redis, AWS (S3, SES, SQS, EKS) 이며, Kafka 기반 이벤트 드리븐 아키텍처와 Kubernetes 환경에서 서비스를 운영합니다. 또한 AI 기술을 적극 활용하여 개발 생산성을 높이고, 유저 경험을 혁신하는 서비스를 만들어갑니다.

2025년 서비스 오픈 이후 빠른 속도로 기능을 확장하고 있으며, 2026년에는 신규 게임 IP 연동 확대, 캠페인 미션 시스템, 인앱 서포터 대시보드 고도화, 중국 소셜 플랫폼 연동 등 다양한 과제들이 예정되어 있습니다.

우리 팀과 함께할 미션을 소개합니다.

B/E

• Spring Boot, Kotlin 기반 MSA 아키텍처로 서비스를 개발합니다.
• Kubernetes 환경에서 CI/CD 파이프라인을 구축하고 서비스를 운영합니다.
• 글로벌 서비스의 대용량 트래픽을 처리하며 다양한 기술적 문제를 해결합니다. 
• AI/LLM을 적극 활용하여 개발 생산성을 높이고 있습니다.

이런 경험을 가진 분과 함께 성장하고 싶습니다! (필수요건)

• 7년 이상의 백엔드 서비스 개발 및 운영 경험 
• Java 또는 Kotlin 기반 Spring Boot 환경에서 서비스 개발 경험
• MSA(Microservice Architecture) 기반 서비스 설계 및 운영 경험
• RDBMS 또는 NoSQL 기반 데이터 모델링 및 성능 최적화 경험
• 대규모 트래픽 환경에서의 성능 개선 및 장애 대응 경험
• Kubernetes 또는 컨테이너 기반 환경에서의 서비스 운영 경험 
• 비동기 처리 또는 이벤트 기반 아키텍처(Kafka, 메시지 큐 등) 활용 경험
• CI/CD 파이프라인을 활용한 서비스 배포 및 운영 경험
• 문제 해결 능력과 서비스 품질 개선을 위한 지속적인 기술 학습 역량

이런 경험들이 있다면 저희가 찾는 그 분입니다! (우대요건)

• 공통
  • 영어 사용 능력 
  • AI/LLM 서비스 활용 경험 (프롬프트 엔지니어링, AI 코딩 어시스턴트 등)
  • 새로운 AI 기술 트렌드에 대한 관심과 빠른 적용 능력
• B/E
  • Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, JPA, RDBMS, NOSQL, Redis, MSA, K8S, Docker 사용 경험
  • Hexagonal Architecture(Ports and Adapters) 기반 설계 및 개발 경험
  • 외부 3rd-party API 연동 경험
  • LLM API 연동 경험 (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI 등)
  • RAG, Vector DB 등 AI 인프라 구축 경험
  • AWS 클라우드 서비스 활용 경험 (S3, SES, SQS, EKS 등)
  • MongoDB 등 NoSQL 데이터베이스 실무 경험
  • 모니터링/옵저버빌리티 도구 활용 경험 (Datadog 등)
  • 글로벌 서비스 또는 다국어/다지역 환경 개발 경험

크래프톤의 도전에 함께 하기 위해 아래의 전형 과정이 필요합니다.

• 서류 전형 > 전화 인터뷰 (Phone Interview) > 직무 테스트 (Pre-Test) > 실무 면접 (Technical Fit Interview) > 최종 면접 (Culture Fit Interview) > 합격 및 입사
• 상시채용으로 우수 인재 채용 시 조기에 마감될 수 있습니다.
• 전형별 합격자에 대해 지원서에 등록하신 이메일 혹은 유선으로 개별 안내 드립니다.
• 전화 인터뷰의 경우, 필수 전형이 아닌 필요에 따라 진행되는 선택 전형임을 사전 안내 드립니다. 이에 대한 상세 내용은 개별 안내 드립니다.
• 필요 시 면접은 추가될 수 있으며, 이에 대한 상세 내용은 개별 안내 드립니다. 

필요 서류를 확인해주세요!

• 입사지원서 (자유 양식), 자기소개서, 경력기술서
• 신입일 경우 자기소개서를, 경력일 경우 경력기술서를 중심으로 기술해 주시기 바랍니다.
• 포트폴리오 첨부 시, 하단 안내 사항을 확인해 주시기 바랍니다. 
  

근무지

• 역삼 센터필드 
  

고용형태 

• 계약직 (6개월, 정규직 전환 비대상)