About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust, extensible systems powering Roblox's core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, etc.) to serve millions of users efficiently.
- Create reusable frontend abstractions using React paradigms and modern tech to enable fast, consistent UI development across teams and devices.
- Maintain and evolve Roblox's internal React-inspired Luau UI libraries, promoting modular design, state management patterns, and performance.
- Define architecture standards to ensure frontend code is scalable, testable, and aligned with proven patterns like Flux, MVC, and MVVM.
- Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to integrate shared solutions and deliver cohesive, high-quality user experiences.
- Address cross-surface issues like memory, responsiveness, and load times to ensure a reliable, fast UI at scale.
- Provide architectural leadership, review designs/code, and mentor engineers in best practices and effective use of platform tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience building user-facing frontend applications.
- Proven track record in implementing or architecting complex frontend systems for large-scale applications.
- Deep expertise in modern mobile/web/frontend technologies - including proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript or mobile equivalents.
- Hands-on experience with frameworks such as React.
- Comfortable with component-based architecture and state management patterns (Redux/Flux or similar) for building maintainable UIs.
- Strong programming skills in one or more scripting languages relevant to frontend and tooling such as TypeScript, Swift or Kotlin.
- Familiarity with C++ or other low-level languages is beneficial for understanding our engine integration.
- Solid understanding of software design principles and architectural patterns as they apply to frontend development.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize frontend performance and diagnose issues.
- Excellent communication skills and a team-oriented mindset.
- Experience developing applications or libraries across multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with large-scale or high-traffic applications.
- Familiarity with building applications that serve users on Web, iOS, Android, Windows, etc.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Flexible work schedule with onsite presence required Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
