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.
This is a high-impact role on our Consumer Platforms- Web & Backend team. You'll be central to a major project, modernizing our web platform by leading a large-scale migration from Angular to React. The position is not just frontend; you'll also build the backend, maintaining core microservices for website functionality and compliance. You'll tackle key challenges like increasing frontend stability and resilience, helping the entire company adopt universal design components. This role involves close collaboration with Design, Product, and other Engineering teams, providing a highly visible impact on the user experience.
You will:
- Lead systematic improvements to our UI development processes and architecture.
- Partner with feature teams to deliver high-quality, polished UI implementations.
- Architect, build, and maintain our design system in collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
- Collaborate with product designers to translate complex design concepts into clean, functional, and high-performance code.
- Innovate and enhance our component library and associated developer tooling to boost team productivity.
- Champion best practices for writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in frontend & backend development, component-based frameworks, and UI/UX to drive continuous improvement.
You have:
- 4+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with a proven track record of building and shipping production-level applications.
- Proficiency in frontend technologies, including expertise with modern component-based UI frameworks like React.
- Solid experience with backend development, including designing APIs, working with microservices and databases, and building scalable server-side logic using languages such as Node.js.
- A deep understanding of the entire application lifecycle, from architecture and design to deployment and maintenance.
- A strong design sensibility and a commitment to creating highly accessible and visually polished user interfaces.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead discussions and work effectively with product, design, and other engineering teams.
- Experience contributing to or managing a design system is a plus.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
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 as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
Other facts
About Roblox
Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
What is Roblox?
Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators.
Powered by Creators
Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox.
How Popular?
Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.
What you'll do
- Lead improvements to UI development processes and architecture while collaborating with feature teams to deliver high-quality UI implementations. Architect and maintain the design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.
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