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Software Engineer, Frontend - Economy

San Mateo, CAOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$153,120–$196,750 /yrPosted 12 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • web frontends
  • mobile frontends
  • user experience
  • Computer Engineering

Nice to have

  • React
  • e-commerce
  • marketplaces
  • monetization
  • personalization
  • experimentation

Role summary

Software Engineer, Frontend - Economy. Build and ship features for a virtual economy with millions of creators and hundreds of millions of users. Requires 1-3 years of experience in web or mobile frontend development, proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, and a modern frontend framework (React preferred). Strong user experience intuition and experience with consumer-facing products are essential. Responsibilities include developing high-performance, accessible, and well-tested code, running experiments, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Bonus points for experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, monetization, personalization, or experimentation, or contributing to backend services. Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent experience required.

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.

Our Economy team owns the products and systems that power how creators earn and how users discover, buy, and express themselves through virtual goods. Together, these make up the world’s largest virtual economy, with millions of creators, hundreds of millions of users, and real money moving every second.

As a Software Engineer on Economy, you’ll build the experiences users and creators interact with every day. You’ll own meaningful features from day one, ship work that directly moves the business, and learn alongside experienced engineers who are invested in your growth. You’ll partner closely with product, design, data science, ML, and backend teams on projects with high economic impact and real visibility.

You Have

  • 1-3 years of experience building production web or mobile frontends.
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern frontend framework (React preferred).
  • Strong intuition for user experience. You notice when something feels off and you know how to fix it.
  • Experience working on consumer-facing products.
  • Curiosity and comfort with ambiguity. You ask good questions and contribute ideas that help shape a project’s direction.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • Bonus: Experience with e-commerce, marketplaces, monetization, personalization, or experimentation, or comfort contributing to backend services.
  • You Will

  • Build and ship polished, high-performing experiences used by hundreds of millions of people across web and mobile.
  • Create tools that help creators grow their businesses and reach the people who’ll love what they make.
  • Bring personalization and data-driven features to life in partnership with ML and data science.
  • Write performant, accessible, well-tested code, instrument your features, run experiments, and iterate based on what you learn.
  • Own features end-to-end, from scoping through launch, and grow toward leading larger projects.
  • Partner with product, design, and engineering to turn strategy into delightful user experiences.
  • 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$153,120—$196,750 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.

    For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

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