Sr/Principal Frontend Engineer, User Libraries & Frameworks

Roblox's User Group's mission is to allow 1 billion+ people to connect, play, learn, and work together by providing intuitive, delightful products that unlock access to civil, social, and high quality co-experiences.

As a Sr/Principal Frontend Engineer, User Libraries and Frameworks, you will build and own cross-team, cross-group strategic programs for internal engineers and the Roblox Lua community; You will focus on engineering efficiency, acceleration, and quality for hundreds of internal Roblox Engineers building our family of applications; You will also mentor team members, drive projects, and make meaningful contribution to all team programs across code, documentation, publishing (newsletters), and technical presentations.

If you love focusing on the User, enjoy increasing quality and performance across user-facing applications, and are excited to improve the lives of creators and players on Roblox's platform, you'll be right at home with our growing team. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Lua Foundation team and have regular discussions with senior leadership.

You Are:

• A Tech Lead with 7+ years experience in interpreted languages (Javascript / TypeScript, Python, Lua), with understanding of VM construction, garbage collection, type inference and safety, JIT, and hot-path optimizations; Experience with 1 or more compiled languages (e.g. C, C++, Rust, and C# AOT) is also required;
• An Expert in program management, in Lean/Agile; With an ability to create and align teams to a multi-year strategy, and execute on that strategy on-budget in an incremental way and with experience managing and driving a portfolio of technical projects across multiple teams for multiple quarters;
• A Domain Expert with understanding of the impact of queueing, testing, type-safety, linting, and developer tooling on overall Engineering efficiency;
• Curious and Excited in learning new languages and technologies as you will work on a React inspired UI platform that powers the Roblox family of apps;
• Test-Motivated: You hold the bar on good test coverage and quality at the same time you are writing code. You understand that stability in layers above you start with your team's work;
• Adaptable: You can shift focus and enjoy working outside your comfort zone;
• Team Player: You work with and inspire others around you, taking on tasks for the greater team.

You Will:

• Focus on making engineers more efficient, make things work faster: allowing entire team's performance increase
• Have unique opportunity to increase Roblox engineering efficiency, quality, and performance across all user-facing Roblox applications
• Work to improve the lives of our creators and players on the Roblox platform
• Build the "right" long-term solutions to problems through lower-risk, incremental delivery
• Take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Work with numerous teams to build the world's best applications.

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