Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by Greylock, a16z and Index.
About the role
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. Our goal is to make that platform fast, consistent, and reliable for the engineers who build on it. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help shape and build it, working across systems, platforms, and infrastructure. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of professional experience building and shipping client applications, ideally on mobile (iOS, Android) or desktop, with a strong foundation in application architecture
- Experience designing shared frameworks, UI platforms, or core libraries that other engineers build on
- A solid understanding of client rendering and layout performance across multiple screen sizes, form factors, and orientations
- Strong debugging and profiling skills, with experience diagnosing performance issues such as slow startup, visual stutter, and memory pressure
- Experience with feature flagging, staged rollouts, and experiment-driven launches
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to align multiple teams around a technical plan
More about this role
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.
The Foundation and Luau Platform team builds the shared platform that Roblox's user interface runs on. Our UI is written in Luau, Roblox's scripting language, using React-style frameworks. We own the core pieces that product teams across Roblox rely on: a component library used across Roblox's apps and tools, server-driven UI, the core app frame and navigation, and the frameworks and libraries underneath them.
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