Senior Frontend Engineer, Voice Communication

Job Summary

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.

About the Role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Voice Communication team, you will spearhead one of Roblox's most high-impact growth levers on communication. You will be directly responsible for driving Communication Daily Active Users (DAU) by envisioning and architecting a highly engaging, immersive and seamless experience for millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Lead the charge in architecting a robust, highly scalable voice client foundation designed to serve as a company-wide platform.
• Ensure that any internal team at Roblox can easily onboard and integrate voice capabilities into their products.
• Empower our creator community by developing sophisticated, yet accessible APIs that allow them to build deeply immersive experiences tailored to their unique visions.
• Ensure these systems are architected with a "safety-first" mindset, maintaining strict adherence to Roblox's industry-leading safety standards while scaling to meet the needs of a billion users.

Requirements

• 5+ years of frontend or client engineering experience (8+ years without a CS or related degree), with a focus on building complex UIs and partnering closely with Product and Design.
• Experience working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux, React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
• Passion for client performance and solving really complex problems requiring performance profiling and optimization (things like memory management, rendering, etc.).
• Real-time communications expertise in technologies like WebRTC or other equivalent ones. Led communication experiences at scale — think WhatsApp, Google Meet, FaceTime, Discord, or similar.
• Leveraged AI for high-velocity execution. You have used AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, iterate quickly, and drive concepts to production.
• Technical leadership. Proven experience mentoring and leveling up junior engineers into independent technical leaders.
• Robust system design skills. Demonstrated ability to author clear, actionable technical design docs that align stakeholders and hold up well in architectural reviews.

Qualifications

• You Will Lead with empathy and invest in the people around you. Mentor and grow senior engineers, remove roadblocks for your teammates, and cultivate an environment where everyone can do their best work.
• Shape the frontend engineering culture across the Communication team. Your influence extends beyond your immediate pod to improve how we build, review, and ship software across the entire org.
• Take on cross-functional initiatives. Collaborate across multiple pods alongside product, design and both frontend and backend engineers.
• Drive initiatives from the creation of comprehensive technical plans and architecture through to successful launch, iteration, and measurable impact.
• Design empowering systems. Build architectures that enable Roblox creators to unlock entirely new forms of voice communication for their users.

Skills

• Kind and generous: Treat colleagues with respect, assume good intent, and go out of your way to help others succeed.
• Product-opinionated: Shape our roadmap and push for the right product outcomes.
• Hands-on: Write code, review code, and stay close to the product.
• AI advocate: Push the boundaries of AI-assisted development for yourself and your team.
• Continuously growing: Take pride in your craft and hold yourself to a higher standard each quarter.

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.