Lead Software Engineer

Role Description

Brookhaven is one of the largest games on Roblox, enjoyed by millions of players around the world every day. As our Lead Software Engineer , you'll lead a small engineering team responsible for delivering the features, systems, and technical improvements that power a live game at massive scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll drive day-to-day engineering execution—from planning and technical direction through release and live operations—while mentoring engineers , setting a high bar for quality, and partnering closely with Product, Design, Art, and QA to ship polished player experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a small engineering team to deliver roadmap features predictably while balancing quality, velocity, technical risk, and business needs.
• Be accountable for the delivery of features owned by direct reports, ensuring work is well-scoped, estimated, sequenced, implemented, tested, merged, and released effectively.
• Own technical estimates produced by the team, ensuring estimates are realistic, account for dependencies and risks, and support reliable roadmap planning.
• Partner closely with product managers, producers, QA, design, art, and other stakeholders to align feature execution with business goals, player experience expectations, and technical constraints.
• Monitor game performance, live stability, crash rates, FPS, and post-release regressions; identify risks, escalate when needed, and drive action plans with the team.
• Set and enforce standards for code quality, maintainability, implementation, and review across the team.
• Mentor engineers on technical execution, code quality, player experience, Roblox/game platform constraints, and engineering judgment.
• Proactively improve game and feature quality by identifying opportunities to improve responsiveness, polish, stability, performance, and overall player experience.
• Collaborate with the manager and senior engineers to define technical initiatives, roadmap risks, operational improvements, and technical priorities for the game.
• Support people leadership responsibilities, including onboarding, structured feedback, performance documentation, growth planning, and identifying gaps against the levelling framework.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of Roblox game development experience.
• 1+ years of experience leading an engineering team of at least 3 people.
• Demonstrated mastery of Roblox game development.
• Shipped games or features on Roblox or similar platforms.
• Proven experience leading engineers through production feature delivery, including but not limited to: planning, estimation, implementation, QA, release, and post-launch support.
• Strong technical judgement with the ability to guide architecture, implementation patterns, code quality, and technical trade-offs across a team.
• Experience monitoring live game or product health through performance metrics, player feedback, incidents, regressions, crash rates, FPS, or related signals.
• Ability to coordinate release readiness, QA send-off, feature merges, incident response, and post-release follow-through.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain priorities, risks, trade-offs, and technical expectations to product, design, QA, art, producers, engineers, and leadership.
• Ability to work hands-on when needed while remaining accountable for team-level delivery, quality, and operational outcomes.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent experience working in a development team.
• Game jam or modding experience.
• Experience building or scaling live game systems (economy, progression, multiplayer systems).
• Familiarity with backend systems, services, or data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of player experience design and gameplay feel.

Tech Stack

• Roblox Luau scripting, ROJO.
• Analytics pipelines (Snowflake, Tableau).
• Collaboration tools: GitHub, Discord.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation - above-market salary + profit sharing + stock options.
• ⛳️ Retirement benefits - company contribution to your retirement plan (401k, RRSP, Pension), in Canada, UK and USA!
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits - depending on the country, there may be additional benefits (Life, ADD, etc…) such as Canada, UK and USA.
• Flexible PTO - vacations + Federal / Bank Holidays.
• Remote First - we have always been remote and will remain that way including work from home/anywhere.
• In-person get-togethers, virtual company-wide game events, Robux allowances, and so much more!
• Professional Development - Reimburse the costs of courses, materials, and anything to help further their training and growth.
• Work with awesome people and impact millions of daily players.