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 Frontend Engineer, Communication you will help us envision and build rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences that feel like life. You will design capabilities that allow users to connect and communicate in realtime on Roblox, in both 2D and 3D space. You will work with different teams (voice, avatar, game engine, trust and safety, other product teams) to build user experiences that millions of users engage with daily, while keeping them safe and civil. If you are someone who is passionate about the future of communication and wants to envision creative ways to allow engaging features, then this team is the right place for you. #LI-Onsite
You will:
- Architect and build reusable components that help platformize communication to power user experiences on Roblox.
- Design creative solutions to improve and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
- Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more efficient.
- Enforce standards while we refine feature development.
- Collaborate with other engineering and product teams at the company to push the boundary of what is possible.
- Take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
- Help recruit future talent for the team
- You will report to the Communication Platform Engineering Manager
You have:
- Experience: You have 5+ years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on complex user interfaces.
- You have experience working on large-scale consumer applications in iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
- You have at least 3 years experience working on deep and challenging problems in complex C++ codebases.
- You hold a BS in Computer Science or above.
- Having experience in Lua is a bonus.
You are:
- Fascinated by UX (and UI): You love to build delightful user experiences for millions of users. You care about the little details that no one notices are there.
- Detailed: You are detailed and like to dig deep to understand the nuances while keeping things simple for our customers. You like building abstractions that hide complexity and make things transparent.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building delightful systems that are reliable.
- Curious: Learn new languages and technologies is exciting to you as you will work on an inspired UI platform that powers the Roblox game engine.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to improve and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product great.
- Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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