Senior Frontend Engineer, Roblox
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$192.9-238.5k
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Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
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Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.9-238.5k
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- If you are someone who is passionate about the future of human communication and wants to envision creative ways to enable highly engaging communication features while upholding high bar for safety, then this team is the right place 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
- 2+ years working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux, React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms
- Well versed in performance monitoring, profiling and optimization
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science
- Having experience in Lua is a bonus
- Experience with C++
- Experience with product experimentation (A/B tests, holdouts etc.)
- Experience in analyzing & improving client performance, optimizing device memory and framerate
- Experience building games with Roblox Studio
- 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 detail oriented 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 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 that powers the 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 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, Communications, you’ll be in charge of building rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences to empower safe and seamless ways for people and our creators to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with Voice, Camera, and Text, at scale in both 2D and 3D space
- You will work closely with different teams (Avatar, game engine, Creator, Trust & Safety, other product teams) to build experiences that millions of users engage with on a daily basis, while keeping them safe and civil
- Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform
- Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient
- Use best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
- Instrumental in launching high quality real time communication products/features on mobile devices and high end platforms
- Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development
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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