Roblox

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Creator Success

San Mateo, CA US
USD 218k - 283k
GraphQL TypeScript Go React Angular API
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Description

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 Creator Success Team empowers Roblox to be the best development platform for creating 3D social experiences, enabling our creators to publish, manage and monetize compelling content within the Roblox ecosystem. This includes products such as Creation Analytics, Talent Marketplace, Documentation, Developer Forum, and Creator Dashboard. You will create and own mission critical services in this cross-discipline team within our Roblox ecosystem.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer working on the team, you will lead the frontend web development across our products. You'll work with cross-functional leaders from Product, Design and Data Science to iterate and evolve our documentation into a world-class learning platform for the Metaverse.

You Are:

  • A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
  • Versatile: You can shift focus and enjoy working outside your comfort zone.
  • Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure the problems and the solutions.
  • Customer Focused: You always start with the needs of the end user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
  • Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You foster a culture of technical excellence.

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience building customer-facing apps
  • 5+ years of experience with UI frameworks like React, Angular
  • Passionate about building a great UI/UX experience through continuous improvements
  • An advocate for performance optimization of the apps
  • A power user for the tools like WebPack, Lighthouse, NPM, Parcel
  • Invested in testing - unit tests, E2E tests, performance testing & auto-optimizations

You might be:

  • Experienced building APIs; REST and GraphQL consuming backend services
  • Interested in evolving design systems and building tools to help engineers & designers
  • Already using TypeScript/Flow for the last few years

You Will:

  • Build & own customer facing products that enables millions of Creators on the platform
  • Drive frontend infra projects that powers all of the Creator web products
  • Introduce and maintain new UI Components and libraries to Grasshopper, our private NPM repository for reusable JS/TS code
  • Collaborate with leaders from design, product and data science to iterate and improve the product
  • Leverage and introduce latest and greatest FE tools and tech to keep pushing FE@Roblox
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
$218,540$283,780 USD

You’ll Love: 

  • Industry-leading compensation package
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • A rewarding 401k program
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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