Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Communications

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Communications, you’ll be in charge of building rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences to empower safe and seamless ways for our users and creators to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with Text, at scale in both 2D and 3D space

The role will focus on advancing our chat architecture through standardizing and centralizing core components across current text chat applications. You will develop innovative capabilities for upcoming products, ensuring an optimal mix of safety measures, user experience, and flexibility for developers. This team is an ideal fit for individuals dedicated to the evolution of human connection who wish to design impactful, secure, and engaging communication tools for millions of global Roblox users

You will work closely with different teams (Avatar, Game engine, Creator, Trust & Safety, other product teams) to build experiences that millions of users engage with on a daily basis, while keeping them safe and civil

You will:

• Architect and build reusable components that help platformize communication to power user experiences on Roblox.
• Instrumental in launching high quality real time communication products/features on mobile devices and high end platforms
• Innovate on the platform to provide creators the tools they need to build deeply tailored & integrated social experiences
• Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
• Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
• Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
• Collaborate with other engineering and product teams (Game engine, Creator, Trust & Safety to name a few) at the company to push the boundary of what is possible.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers for the team

You have:

• 5+ years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on complex user interfaces.
• Experience working on large-scale consumer applications in React (or other frontend frameworks like Vue, Angular or Svelte) , React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• Experience collaborating with backend engineers on client/server design and architecture for high-scale products, including knowledge of performance principles like caching and modern technologies.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, and Data Science to drive meaningful results that align with the team's overarching vision

Nice to haves

• Experience building communication products and features.
• Experience working closely with design, strong design interest/background.
• Experience in analyzing & improving client performance, optimizing device memory and framerate.
• Experience building applications in Lua.
• Experience with C++
• Experience of test driven development. 

You are: 

• Responsible : you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are thorough in your designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing.
• Analytical : Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• Creative : You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our end users and game developers 
• Team-oriented : You are able to work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. Able to write clear design specs, mentor junior engineers, and guide projects from beginning to end
• Data-driven focused on quality metrics and monitoring

Bonus:

• Experience building communication products and features.
• Experience working closely with design, strong design interest/background.
• Experience in analyzing & improving client performance, optimizing device memory and framerate.
• Experience building applications in Lua.
• Experience with C++
• Experience of test driven development.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page .

Annual Salary Range$196,750—$243,290 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.