Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Roblox
Chat
$238.5-289.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$238.5-289.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 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
- If you are passionate about client development, tackling complex technical challenges, creating scalable and high-performance user experiences, and envisioning innovative and safe communication features, this is an ideal opportunity for you
- 3+ years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on complex user interfaces in close collaboration with product and design partners
- Experience working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux, React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms
- Knowledge of testing methodologies, including tools like Jest, React Testing Library or other comparable technologies
- Passion for quality user interfaces and user experience, experience working with
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Detail Oriented: You 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 high performant clients and robust systems that are extensible and reliable
- Curious: Learning new languages and technologies is exciting to you as you will be working on a React inspired UI platform and Roblox game engine
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to optimize and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product phenomenal
- Collaborative: You enjoy working with others, and actively seek multiple points of view to develop the best solutions - and support others as they flesh out their ideas. You are keen to be a part of developing our team culture, and to share your knowledge with everyone on the team
- Growth-Orientated: You are looking to take on new challenges and value continuous feedback (both giving and receiving). You are looking for mentorship opportunities, and have a growth mindset
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Communication team, you will play a vital role in this wider vision of connection and civility. We are currently expanding our team - as we look to invest more in our chat product. You will help us expand and improve our existing private chat functionality keeping in mind how best to serve a diverse user base across a wide range of devices/platforms
- Design and architect highly engaging and immersive communication features on client-side - working in Web and App
- Drive projects - that both expand our existing features and help iterate on existing ones - take ownership throughout its full lifecycle
- Collaborate with other engineers across multiple teams to develop best practices and share with both our team and beyond
- Be self-organised - identify gaps and improve our processes around experimentation, testing, performance monitoring and execution in general to help us be more effective and efficient
- Guide and drive high quality standards while we iterate on feature development - both in terms of code quality and user experience
- Also help shape and develop our team culture, helping us find opportunities to improve our processes and co-create a culture that makes sure everyone is able to succeed
- Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers on the team
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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