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Roblox
Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Avatar Expression
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar & Expression team, you will lead engineering efforts that scale Roblox Avatars and build the systems that deliver engaging experiences for users as they craft their avatars across multiple platforms and devices.
Our team designs all the systems within Marketplace for Avatars on the Roblox Platform, builds the architecture to increase scale, avatar quality, and functionality and creates new services that make developers more efficient and productive.
With over 90 million daily active users (and growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer to join us that's passionate about designing and creating world-class user experiences.
You Will:
- Partner with a cross-functional team including product, design, and data science to develop and deliver user-facing features to 90+ million daily active users on the Roblox platform
- Develop in-game APIs and Interfaces used by millions of users in a reliable, secure manner.
- Build new product features to enable users to customize their avatar and express themselves in Roblox
- Run experiments to test product hypotheses and make data driven decisions
- Participate in bottoms-up product ideation and roadmap creation
- Support our Avatar in production, sharing the on-call rotation with your team colleagues
- Write high-quality, performant code, and refactor and improve our existing codebase
- Improve system reliability, performance, and test coverage
- Report to an Engineering Manager on our Avatar & Expression team.
You Have:
- 4+ years of professional experience working on consumer-facing applications.
- 3+ years of experience with modern UI frameworks like React or React Native
- Strong product and design intuition.
- Broken down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages with a history of successful execution & delivery
- First-hand tech lead experience and have helped team members reach their technical potential
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a production environment.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$192,890—$238,520 USD
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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Roblox San Mateo, California, USA Office
3150 South Delaware Street, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94403
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