Senior Frontend Engineer, S (Archived) | VirtualInterview.ai

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.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Social Graph team, you’ll build social connection features to empower Roblox users to discover, search for, and connect with their real-life friends and interests on Roblox. You will drive company-level objectives for friend co-experience and user retention. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on building scalable, developer facing and user-facing products that blend technical depth with creative impact.

You Will:

Design and build engaging, high-performance social connection features across Roblox Platform.

Own projects end to end, from design and architecture to launch and iteration, driving measurable impact on friend co-experience and user retention.

Collaborate with engineers across product, safety, and infrastructure teams to define best practices and align on scalable solutions.

Identify gaps in performance, testing, and experimentation workflows, and lead improvements that make the team more effective and efficient.

Uphold high standards of technical quality and user experience while rapidly iterating on new features.

Contribute to a strong, inclusive team culture by helping refine processes, mentoring peers, and supporting each other’s success.

Help recruit and grow future talent who share our passion for building the next generation of social connection features on Roblox.

You Have:

3+ years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on complex user interfaces in close collaboration with product and design partners.

Experience working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux, React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.

Knowledge of testing methodologies, including tools like Jest, React Testing Library or other comparable technologies.

Passion for quality user interfaces and user experience, experience working with that.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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 as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$195,780—$242,100 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

Senior Frontend Engineer, Social Graph

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