Senior/Principal Software Engineer (Frontend), Communications

As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Communications, you’ll be in charge of building rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences to empower safe and detailed ways for people to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with Voice, Camera, and Text, at scale. You will work closely with different teams (Game Engine, Apps, Avatar, Creator, Trust & safety, other product teams) to build user experiences that millions of users engage with daily, while keeping them safe and civil. If you are someone who is passionate about the future of human communication and wants to envision creative ways to enable highly engaging communication features while upholding high bar for safety, then this team is the right place for you.

You Will:

• Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
• Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
• Use the best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
• Be instrumental in launching high quality real time communication products/features on mobile devices and high end platforms
• Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
• Collaborate with other engineering, product and design teams at the company to push the boundary of what is possible.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers in the team

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience as a front-end or client apps engineer working on sophisticated user interfaces, in close collaboration with product and design partners
• 4-6 years working on large-scale consumer applications in React/Redux, React Native, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
• At least 3 years experience working on deep and ambitious problems in sophisticated C++ codebases
• Well versed in performance monitoring, profiling and optimization
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science

You Are:

• Fascinated by UX (and UI): You love to build delightful user experiences for millions of users. You care about the little details that no one notices are there.
• Detailed: You are detail oriented and like to dig deep to understand the nuances while keeping things simple for our customers. You like building abstractions that hide complexity and make things transparent.
• Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building delightful and robust systems that are extensible and reliable.
• Curious: Learning new languages and technologies is exciting to you as you will be working on a React inspired UI platform that powers the Roblox game engine.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to optimize and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product phenomenal.
• Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.