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 Virtual Economy team, part of Developer Monetization org, owns all aspects of Robux, Roblox’s Virtual Currency. As a Senior Engineer on our team, you will lead the work on In-Game Purchasing within Roblox and adjacent systems.
Beyond this scope, you will be involved with several additional systems also owned by the team such as:
- Purchasing interfaces across all Roblox
- Transaction reporting systems.
- Pricing and other monetization tuning systems
The systems above enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions.
The ideal candidate is passionate about building outstanding user experiences on the web, mobile apps, games or elsewhere. You'll work with Roblox Game Engine technologies integrating functionality into the Roblox version of Lua called Luau paired with occasional tweaks on adjacent systems. Experience with game development is especially translatable into this role, but not a requirement.
You Will:
- Build experiences for a global community of over 90 million daily active users
- Develop in-game APIs and Interfaces used by millions of users in a reliable, secure manner.
- Contribute to our cross-platform game client codebase, written in Lua.
- Work on a full-stack capacity (e.g. tweaking a backend API) as needed. Approximately 20% of the time.
- Work with product, data science, and design to help refine strategy and requirements.
- Contribute to overall user experience, gather feedback, and iterate where necessary.
- Be a tech lead for the team and mentor junior engineers
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.
- A collaborative mindset to partner with Product Managers and Designers.
- Communication skills to navigate an organization to promote clarity and improvement across multiple systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a production environment.
- An interest in learning new technologies
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.
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.