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Senior Front-End Web Engineer - Personalization
2 years 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.
The Personalization team has the goal to personalize all of our content distribution surfaces on Roblox, allowing every user to have a dramatically different experience tailored to their interests. To achieve this, we oversee a large portion of the user experience on Roblox, including the Home, Discover, Search, and Experience Details pages, driving the Roblox ecosystem through the lens of personalized recommendations and search across our diverse product verticals. We are looking for an experienced professional who will lead our web Front-End Engineering with a focus on modern dynamic UX at scale and experimentation to determine how best to improve the experience for our hundreds of millions of daily users.
As a Senior Front-end Web Engineer working on the Personalization team, you will lead the frontend web development across our products through a full-stack perspective. You will work with product and design to build highly-usable, modern interfaces that shape how our users interact with the Roblox ecosystem, reporting directly to the Senior Engineering Manager on Personalization.
You Are:
- Experienced with 5+ plus years of work experience building world class User Interfaces
- Hands-On with UI scripting languages such as JavaScript or Lua and with JavaScript UI frameworks, particularly React/Redux integrating with APIs, and HTML and CSS
- Full-stack or applications development ability with working knowledge of developing APIs with REST, JSON, gRPC, or GraphQL
- Proficient in industry standards, best practices and design patterns
- Focused on writing clear, readable documentation and testable, modular, well-monitored code
- Passionate about working on a large-scale, consumer-facing desktop application
You Might Have:
- Experience building APIs at scale
- Experience developing applications (Windows, Android, iOS or game console platforms)
- Experience with languages such as Kotlin, Java, Swift or Objective-C, C#
- Experience in mobile UI frameworks like Flutter, React Native, or Cordova
- Experience in Feeds-based and server-side UX
- Experience in search and recommendations products
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
$218,540 — $283,780 USD
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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