Engineering Manage - Virtual Purchasing

Why Virtual Purchasing?

As an Engineering Manager for Virtual Purchasing, you will help develop the virtual economy at Roblox and ensure that Developers and Creators can earn from their products. Every time a purchase using Robux happens, it flows through Virtual Purchasing’s systems. Those purchases cover products developers sell in their experiences, avatar items, game passes, private servers among others. Those systems process billions of transactions per year. You will help scale our distributed systems while maintaining a safe and secure virtual economy.

In this role, you will provide insights and reporting to all participants in the ecosystem (users, creators, sellers) so they can understand their sales, and how to grow. You will also evaluate ways in which complex development teams can distribute and share earnings across their contributors.

You Will:

• Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions in a reliable, secure manner.
• Innovate on virtual economy in the metaverse and build the next generation of commerce in the metaverse.
• Be the leader for the team ranging from junior engineers to industry veterans.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to deliver multiple projects concurrently.
• Help recruit future talent for Roblox.
• Have direct impact on the future direction of the largest social platform for play, delivering groundbreaking solutions allowing our development teams earn a sustainable living and build experiences for a global community of over 66 million daily active users.

You Are:

• An engineering manager well-versed in leading teams and an ability to hire and grow a talented team of engineers.
• Able to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions with in-depth technical knowledge regarding distributed backend systems that could handle many concurrent users.
• Effective at driving complex projects that involved engineering efforts with multiple stakeholders.
• Experienced, with 2+ years in an engineering management role and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code.
• Passionate about working on large-scale platforms, with some user-facing aspects.
• Data-driven with a defined approach to delivering quality metrics and monitoring.