Senior Software Engineer (Lua) - Avatar Identity
About The Position
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. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Software Engineer on our Avatar Identity engineering team, you will build experiences on Roblox to facilitate the building and customization of player avatars. The avatar is core to every player’s experience on Roblox and you’ll have a front-row seat in building a new way to customize that’ll be used by the millions of players that customize their avatar every day.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience working with cross-functional partners, including Producers & 3D Artists
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- A track record of quality game(s) on the Roblox platform (very strong plus)
- Roblox / Luau development experience (strong plus). Alternately, experience in other game engineers such as Godot / Unity / Unreal / etc. is a plus
- C++ experience (a plus but not required)
Responsibilities
- Core responsibility: develop new user-facing experiences on Roblox that allow players to customize their avatars in new and exciting ways
- As needed: add new features to the Roblox app (Luau/React) and build upon the game APIs used by third-party developers to customize player avatars (C++)
- Be an active participant in the direction and development of the team’s roadmap & strategy
- Collaborate closely with other engineers and cross-functional partners (product, design, art) in the Avatar and Marketplace teams
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
