Senior Frontend Engineer, Voice Communication

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Voice Communication team youll help build how tens of millions of people talk to each other on Roblox. Voice is one of our most important levers for deeper social connection and youll shape the client experience that makes real-time communication feel fast reliable and natural on any work has a direct impact on how many people use communication on Roblox every day. and it sits at the center of our mission to reimagine how people come together.

You will lead the charge in architecting a robust highly scalable voice client foundation designed to serve as a company-wide platform. Your work will ensure that any internal team at Roblox can easily onboard and integrate voice capabilities into their products. By building this solid technical core you will enable the next generation of social interactions moving from simple in-experience chat to sophisticated persistent social presence across the entire ecosystem.

Furthermore you will empower our creator community by developing sophisticated yet accessible APIs that allow them to build deeply immersive experiences tailored to their unique visions. Youll design these systems with safety built in from the start holding to Robloxs safety standards as we scale.

• Mentor and grow the engineers around you across levels remove roadblocks for teammates and help build an environment where people do their best work.
• Help shape frontend engineering practices across the Communication team: how we build review and ship beyond just your immediate pod.
• Act as technical lead on cross-functional initiatives partnering with product design and both frontend and backend engineers.
• Take end-to-end ownership drive projects from technical plan and architecture through launch iteration and measurable impact.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase. Our senior engineers actively build the platform and review code.
• Design systems that empower Roblox creators to unlock entirely new forms of voice communication for their users.

• 5 years of frontend or client engineering building complex user-facing UIs in close partnership with Product and Design
• Depth in at least one major client platform like React/Redux or React Native or native iOS Android or desktop (Windows/macOS). You dont need all of them.
• Strong system design: you can write clear technical design docs that align stakeholders and hold up in architectural review
• A track record of mentoring engineers and helping them grow into stronger more independent contributors
• Nice to have: Real-time communications expertise in technologies like WebRTC or equivalent. Experience leading communication initiatives at scale (e.g. WhatsApp Google Meet FaceTime Discord).
• Passion for client performance: you enjoy profiling and optimizing things like memory rendering and latency.
• Leveraged AI for high-velocity execution. You have used AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping iterate quickly and drive concepts to production.

• Kind and generous: you treat colleagues with respect assume good intent and go out of your way to help others succeed. You believe technical excellence without kindness isnt enough.
• Product-opinionated: you dont just execute a plan you help shape the roadmap and push for the right product outcomes.
• Hands-on: you write code review code and stay close to the product. Youre not looking for a role where you stop building.
• Curious about AI: youre excited to explore how AI-assisted development changes the craft for yourself and your team.
• Always growing: you take pride in your work and keep raising your own bar over time