Senior Frontend Engineer- Messaging
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
25-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer Communications youll be in charge of building rich immersive and engaging user communication experiences to empower safe and seamless ways for people and our creators to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with Voice Camera and Text at scale in both 2D and 3D space
You will work closely with different teams (Avatar game engine Creator Trust & Safety other product teams) to build experiences that millions of users engage with on a daily basis while keeping them safe and civil.
If you are someone who is passionate about the future of human communication and wants to envision creative ways to enable highly engaging communication features while upholding high bar for safety then this team is the right place for you
You Will:
- Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
- Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
- Use best programming practices optimizing code to be performant
- Instrumental in launching high quality real time communication products/features on mobile devices and high end platforms
- Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
You Have:
- 3 years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on complex user interfaces in close collaboration with product and design partners
- 2 years working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux React Native iOS Android Windows Mac OS and other platforms.
- Well versed in performance monitoring profiling and optimization
- Bachelors degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science
- Having experience in Lua is a bonus.
- Experience with C
- Experience with product experimentation (A/B tests holdouts etc.)
- Experience in analyzing & improving client performance optimizing device memory and framerate.
- Experience building games with Roblox Studio
You Are:
- Fascinated by UX (and UI): You love to build delightful user experiences for millions of users. You care about the little details that no one notices are there.
- Detailed: You are detail oriented and like to dig deep to understand the nuances while keeping things simple for our customers. You like building abstractions that hide complexity and make things transparent.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building delightful and robust systems that are extensible and reliable.
- Curious: Learning new languages and technologies is exciting to you as you will be working on a React inspired UI platform that powers the Roblox game engine.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to optimize and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product great.
- Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
