Work with the most passionate and team-oriented people you'll ever meet in your life. Community is the heart and soul of Roblox. Over 30 million active players engage on our platform every day!

The impact that you can have at Roblox is boundless! Much like our platform, the possibilities here are limitless. We're looking for someone who's eager to take on a meaningful role in the ongoing success of Roblox on a massive scale.

Are you ready to take Roblox – and your career – to the next level?

Roblox App is the gateway for the hundred millions of the users to experience the millions of Roblox Experiences across many popular platforms including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Xbox and more. What your browser window is to the internet, the Roblox App is to the metaverse: a single portal that unlocks immersive, social interaction with an endless array of UGC experiences.

As a Technical Director (Individual Contributor) on the Roblox App Team, you'll define the technical vision and execution for the Roblox App, our cross platform technology that enables the development of features across all of the Roblox supported platforms. Our goal is to provide users anytime, anywhere access to the Roblox Metaverse. We care deeply about architecture, performance, security/privacy and user experiences.

You Are:

• Experienced: You have 10+ years of industry experience. You have a BS in Computer Science, Masters are a definite plus.
• Always ready: You have already built and deployed client-side that support millions of users and are not afraid of any part of the technical stack
• Versatile: You have mastered several languages (e.g. ObjC, Java, etc) and technologies (e.g. iOS, Android, Windows, etc); .
• Knowledgeable: You can go deep in any required areas from fluid animations, threading, caching, networking to automation testing and CI/CD pipeline. You can recommend one route versus another and bring a team of engineers to agreement. You also love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our developers.
• Team-oriented: You always put the community, company, and team priorities ahead of personal goals, and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.

You Will:

• Manage the technology to help Roblox scale our application development with a growing number of teams and engineers.
• Lead the technical direction and implementation necessary to increase the Universal App architecture across our tech stack of native code, C++ and Lua.
• Envision the tooling and build infrastructure that are necessary to support frequent features delivery from many independent engineering teams.
• Stay on top of the new functionalities from the 3rd party platforms that Roblox supports and introduce and promote them as new capabilities into our products.
• Work with the industry and 3rd party vendors to satisfy necessary compliance requirements.
• Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable for our open source footprints.