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Senior Engineering Manager - Commerce
1 year ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a Senior Engineering Manager - Commerce you will help build all things virtual economy at Roblox. The commerce team maintains a virtual marketplace that handles millions of transactions a day, is building an immersive ads system, and building the ability to buy physical goods in a 3D immersive space. This team is also responsible for all money coming in and out of the platform, including tracking of our Robux currency. The team provides the infrastructure and statistics to empower developers to monetize their games, with our top developers earning millions of dollars each month. This role will be reporting to the Engineering Director.
You Will:
- Develop team Roadmap, charter and vision. Oversee and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
- Work with Product, Design, Finance and Data Science to identify and estimate product opportunities, promote data-driven decision-making.
- Provide guidance on architecture and design processes for launching products and features.
- Hire and provide mentoring to junior engineers, senior engineers, and managers in their progress on business and personal career goals.
- Set the technical direction balancing tech debt and product deliverable
You Have:
- Experienced, with 2+ years in an engineering management role and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field
- A leader with experience and an ability to hire and grow a talented team of engineers
- Can contribute to architecture and implementation discussions across platforms (backend, mobile, console)
- Well-versed in backend development with modern OO architectures, scalable containerized systems and microservices, using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, .NETCore, SpringMVC, Goalang, Rails or Flask
- Set high engineering standards on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
- Passionate about working on a large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
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
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