Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Financial Platform, Wallets
$293.8-343.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$293.8-343.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Genuine passion about building Roblox's Economy
- Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
- A data-driven focus to provide quality metrics and monitoring
- Shipped large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
- Knowledge with REST, GRPC, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
- A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 10+ years of hands-on experience
- Built or led production digital wallet/ledger systems where correctness and audit-ability mattered (e.g., transactions and money movement, reconciliation, KYC/KYB, payout/withdrawals and/or card issuing)
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer on the Wallets team, you will lead the technical design and execution of Roblox’s next-generation wallet system, enabling users to seamlessly hold and transact with both Fiat and Robux currencies
- You’ll architect a highly secure, scalable dual-wallet infrastructure that supports funding, earnings, transfers, withdrawals, and lays the groundwork for future regulated financial capabilities within the Roblox economy
- You’ll collaborate closely with product, legal, finance, and other economy engineering teams to build the core of Roblox’s financial systems, powering real money movement at global scale in one of the world’s most dynamic digital marketplaces
- Drive architecture and standards across teams, and lead the design and delivery of a bank-grade wallet and money movement platform with strong guarantees of correctness, auditability and reliability
- Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions
- Work cross functionally with product managers, data scientists and designers to define requirements and roadmap
- Help recruit future talent for the team and mentor junior engineers
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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