Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

Responsibilities

• Join us and help build the frontend platform that underpins the metaverse! Together, we'll enable incredible new experiences for our users and a productive, joyful development experience for our engineers.
• You Have:
• 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 (experience with large-scale or high-traffic applications is a plus).
• Strong programming skills in one or more scripting languages relevant to frontend and tooling such as TypeScript, Swift or Kotlin, or the ability to quickly learn them, is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding of software design principles and architectural patterns as they apply to frontend development. Able to design clean APIs and module boundaries, and experienced in creating maintainable and testable code bases with proper unit/integration testing practices.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize frontend performance and diagnose issues. Knowledge of performance debugging, profiling, and benchmarking techniques on the client side. Passion for ensuring fast, fluid user experiences on all devices.
• Experience developing applications or libraries across multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop). Familiarity with building applications that serve users on Web, iOS, Android, Windows, etc. is desirable for ensuring a seamless cross-platform experience.
• Familiarity with C++ or other low-level languages is a nice to have but not mandatory.
• You will:
• 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.
• For roles

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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