Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Roblox

Payments Optimization

$233.8-283.8k

+ Equity

SQL

React

TypeScript

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Flink

Hive

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Online gaming and entertainment platform

Job no longer available

Online gaming and entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Job no longer available

$233.8-283.8k

+ Equity

SQL

React

TypeScript

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Flink

Hive

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of professional experience working with scalable, distributed systems
Strong experience in large-scale, data-driven architecture, API design, data modeling, and SQL / NoSQL data storage
Experience with modern front-end development using technologies like React and TypeScript
A passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and A/B testing, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders
Experience with data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hive, Airflow, or Kafka is a plus, but not required
Strong ownership with proactive, candid communication, and an ability to handle high complexity
A Bachelor's Degree or above in Computer Science or another quantitative field

What the job involves

As an Economy Payments Flow Optimization engineer, you will optimize Roblox’s payments funnel
This team designs and builds product features, payment funnel optimizations, and data processing capabilities
You will build out and support mass parallel experiments, and collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists
Roblox is a high-growth, unique product environment
Your work will expedite the company’s rapid expansion. This high impact work and your innovation will ensure a frictionless checkout experience
Our team’s challenges are not just regular day-to-day technical challenges. You will be in a data-driven environment developing high-scale data solutions and helping launch mass experiments that will have impacts across our platform and community
Launch experiments to improve user experience on our frontend and mobile surfaces
Develop backend services and data processing to implement product logic, perform reporting and analytic calculations, and produce features for ML models
Collaborate with our cross-functional team members including those in product, design, data science, and machine learning

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

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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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