Senior Frontend Engineer, UI Ecosystem

Reposted 16 Days Ago
San Mateo, CA
Hybrid
193K-239K Annually
Senior level
Computer Vision • Gaming • Software • Virtual Reality • Web3 • Metaverse
Immersive gaming and creation platform
The Role
The Senior Frontend Engineer will enhance the UI ecosystem at Roblox, focusing on developing high-quality UI components, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring accessibility and design consistency.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

We're searching for an experienced and passionate Senior Engineer to join our UI Ecosystem team at Roblox! You will play a key role in shaping the future of UI development, working with cross-functional engineering stakeholders to execute the vision for the frameworks and UI components with which we build our flagship Roblox products.

Our team’s mission is to build high quality UI components to accelerate the development of features and improve the developer experience for our feature teams in the Roblox App and Roblox Studio, while ensuring accessible and consistent design. We aim to make developing flexible, performant UI, a ✨ delightful ✨ experience. You have a passion for crafting beautiful, accessible, and functional UI foundations that delight our users. This role will involve cross-functional collaboration and communication with other teams and our own designers and engineers.

You Have:

  •  4+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong understanding of design principles and best practices.
  • Experience with frontend technologies and component-based UI frameworks (e.g., React).
  • Experience with accessible design and development, a plus if that includes WCAG guidelines.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills - this role requires a lot of cross-org collaboration and support of other internal customers.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • A keen eye for detail and a passion for creating pixel-perfect, user-friendly interfaces.
  • Experience working with or contributing to a design system is a major plus.
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

You Will:

  • Help drive systematic changes for how we build UI
  • Partner with feature developers to ship gold standard UI implementations
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across our products.
  • Partner closely with designers to translate design concepts into functional, high-quality Luau code.
  • Develop and maintain accessible UI components and patterns, ensuring compliance with relevant WCAG guidelines.
  • Develop new features and enhancements to our component library and associated tooling.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Stay up-to-date on the latest software development trends and technologies, particularly those relevant to frontend development and component-based UI frameworks.
  • Implement UI components with a focus on accessibility, ensuring our app is usable by everyone.
 

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
$192,890$238,520 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.

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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Roblox is an immersive gaming and creation platform that offers people millions of ways to be together, inviting its community to explore, create and share endless unique experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together — in a world that's safe, civil, and optimistic. To achieve this vision, we are building an innovative company that, together with the Roblox community, has the ability to strengthen our social fabric and support economic growth for people around the world.

Why Work With Us

Every day, Roblox employees tackle complex questions and drive incredible innovation. Join us in building the future of human connection and communication.

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