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 UI Systems team leads initiatives shaping the future of immersive UI at Roblox. As the central and largest UI-focused team working on the Roblox application, we lead a wide range of projects that touch every aspect of creating immersive and cross-platform UI solutions. This includes everything from the underlying UI framework to user-facing features and solutions for our community of Creators.

If you are an expert in creating beautiful and high-performance User Interfaces, and are passionate about User Experience, you will be right at home with us!

You will:

Architect the high performance UI framework, capable of delivering the high quality experiences on a variety of devices and platforms with minimal overhead.
Create new Roblox features and optimize existing ones (e.g. Leaderboard, Backpack, Emotes) to make them delightful to use.
Work closely with internal teams and our Creator community to help them achieve their creative UI visions.
Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.
Mentor more junior engineers and help them grow in their role.

You have:

Experience: You have 5+ years of experience working on large-scale responsive applications with sophisticated UI across multiple platforms. Well versed in performance monitoring, profiling and optimization.
A fascination for UX (and UI): You love to build delightful user experiences for millions of users.
Deep Curiosity: You are excited to work on a new UI platform inspired by React and powered by the Roblox game engine. Learning new languages and technologies is exciting to you.
Team-player mindset: You work with and inspire others around you, taking on tasks for the greater team
A motivation to test: TDD is exciting to you, not scary! :)

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.

Annual Salary Range

$238,520—$289,460 USD

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
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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.

Senior Software Engineer

UI Systems

Roblox

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