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Senior Front End Software Engineer - User Behavior
1 year ago
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.
WHY USER BEHAVIOR?
Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority and our mission is to protect our community. As a Senior Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the highest priority organization at Roblox that features diverse work in product/mobile engineering, machine learning, data engineering, and traditional high throughput and low latency microservices to detect issues in real time. You'll be focused on building the infrastructure to monitor the user's behavior and move it toward more civil engagement. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving problems that haven't been solved before with a user-facing focus. Our clients serve over 200M Daily Active Users and thousands of internal tools users who support our community. You will have a high impact and will directly affect our hundreds of millions of monthly users.
You Are:
- Effective skills with compiled languages such as Go, Python, C#, Java, or other for the past 5+ years, with experience building microservices.
- Experienced with high impact work, 5+ years delivering complex code and with at least one JavaScript framework such as React, Vue, or AngularJS.
- A Leader with experience supporting essential applications on a large-scale and an ambition towards more.
- Knowledgeable and experienced with modern JavaScript tools and release frameworks.
- Accomplished with HTML/CSS and cross-browser compatibility.
- Practiced in building responsive web pages which are mobile-friendly.
- Trained with full stack software development, including connectivity to databases, caches, and deployment to backend systems.
- Expert in common web application security issues
You Will:
- Help build middleware/backend services across a large distributed systems
- Oversee writing good tests, including unit and end-to-end test
- Identify and debug performance-related issues
- Help establish next-generation standards on the backend web and service stack
- Participate in building the world's best user generated gaming platform
You Have:
- 4+ years of experience in software development
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing user interfaces
- 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
- 4+ years of experience with modern JavaScript UI frameworks, such as React
Nice to Have:
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- Additional experience building complex tools from start to finish using modern frontend frameworks, and understanding their impact on downstream backend systems
- Have a strong design sense
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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