Engineering Manager, UI Ecosystem

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.

Engineering Manager Luau UI Ecosystem

Were searching for an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Luau UI Ecosystem team at Roblox! In this role you will play a key part in shaping the future of UI development at scale. You will lead a talented team of engineers working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define scale and execute the vision for the frameworks and UI components that power our flagship Roblox products.

Our teams mission is to improve performance accelerate feature development and elevate the developer experience for engineering teams across the Roblox App and Roblox Studio all while ensuring accessible and consistent design. We aim to make developing flexible performant UI a delightful experience.

As a leader you are strategic people-centric and exceptionally skilled at driving alignment across diverse engineering and design organizations. You are passionate about building high-performing teams mentoring engineering talent and fostering a culture that crafts beautiful accessible and blazing-fast interfaces.

You Will

• Manage coach and grow a high-performing team of frontend and systems engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence collaboration and continuous learning.
• Define the technical roadmap and vision for Robloxs UI frameworks and design systems balancing immediate developer needs with long-term architectural health.
• Partner closely with Product Design and various Feature Engineering teams to ensure our UI ecosystem unifies design concepts into functional high-quality Luau code.
• Oversee the development and adoption of accessible UI components and patterns ensuring compliance with global accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Support and unblock internal customer teams ensuring the component library and associated tooling genuinely accelerate feature delivery across Roblox Studio and the App.
• Own the teams agile processes sprint planning and delivery commitments ensuring the team ships clean maintainable and well-documented infrastructure.

You Have

• 2 years of engineering management experience directly leading and developing engineering teams alongside 6 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong foundational knowledge of frontend technologies component-based UI frameworks (e.g. React) and design systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You excel at cross-org collaboration managing internal customer expectations and driving technical consensus.
• A strong eye for design principles and a deep commitment to accessible development (WCAG guidelines).
• Experience treating internal frameworks/tooling as a product using developer feedback to iterate and improve the ecosystem.
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.