Senior Software Engineer
Full-time
Roblox
Responsibilities
- Design and build UI frameworks and APIs, including layout and navigation systems, server-driven UI, and shared component libraries.
- Develop core navigation, routing, state-management, and data-flow systems for fast and consistent application behavior.
- Improve startup performance, transition smoothness, layout stability, and client performance across phones, tablets, and desktops using traces and telemetry.
- Roll out platform changes safely using feature flags, staged rollouts, side-by-side validation, and rapid rollback.
- Drive adoption of shared frameworks and components by partnering with product, design, and feature engineering teams.
- Improve engineering quality through code reviews, test coverage, documentation, and mentoring.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional experience building and shipping client applications, ideally on mobile or desktop.
- Strong hands-on React experience and understanding of its component model, state management, and rendering behavior, preferably with React Native or a comparable application framework.
- Experience designing shared frameworks, UI platforms, or core libraries for other engineers to use.
- Understanding of client rendering and layout performance across screen sizes, form factors, and orientations.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills for issues such as slow startup, visual stutter, and memory pressure.
- Experience with feature flagging, staged rollouts, and experiment-driven launches.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to align multiple teams around a technical plan.
- Ability to work in a large evolving codebase and migrate legacy code incrementally.
- Bonus qualifications include Luau or Lua, React Navigation or comparable routing libraries, native iOS or Android development, server-driven UI, cross-platform applications, and developer-support experience.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The listed annual base salary range applies to roles based at the San Mateo, California headquarters.
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