Roblox
PrincipalFrontendEngineer,Co-Experience
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“Principal Frontend Engineer, Co-Experience at Roblox. Skills: Frontend engineering, Real-time audio/video calling, Technical leadership, System design. Define how hundreds of millions of Roblox users talk, hang out, and stay connected. Shape the frontend engineering culture across the Communication team”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerating toward product-market fit; Deliver; Successful launch, iteration, and measurable impact
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of frontend or client engineering experience (11+ years without a CS or related degree), with a focus on building complex UIs and partnering closely with Product and Design, Real-time calling product expertise, Led consumer audio/video calling experiences at scale — think WhatsApp, Google Meet, FaceTime, Discord, or similar, Used AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, iterate quickly, and drive concepts to production, Proven experience mentoring and leveling up senior engineers into independent technical leaders, Demonstrated ability to author clear, actionable technical design docs that align stakeholders and hold up well in architectural reviews
What You'll Do.
Define how hundreds of millions of Roblox users talk
Shape the frontend engineering culture across the Communication team
Act as the technical lead for cross-functional initiatives
Take end-to-end ownership of projects
Drive initiatives from the creation of comprehensive technical plans and architecture through to successful launch
and measurable impact
Remain hands-on in the codebase
Actively develop the platform and review the code
Build architectures that enable Roblox creators to unlock entirely new forms of co-experience for their users
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering closely with Product and Design; Collaborate across multiple pods alongside product, design and both frontend and backend engineers
Process & Methodology
Creation of comprehensive technical plans and architecture
Full Job Description
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. As a Principal Frontend Engineer on the Co-Experience team, you'll define how hundreds of millions of Roblox users talk, hang out, and stay connected. If you've shipped consumer real-time audio/video calling — and you understand the reliability, latency, and trust constraints that come with it — this is your chance to bring that craft to a product unlike any other. Our flagship surface is the platform-level Party System: the heartbeat of social interaction on Roblox, where users form groups and stay together across servers and games. Our technical foundations are strong; we're accelerating toward product-market fit and need a principal who delivers. Your scope will span the full Communication surface — chat, voice, video — and formats we haven't built yet, across both traditional UI and immersive 3D environments. You'll shape the systems and APIs that let Roblox creators add rich social features to their own worlds, and lead technical strategy across multiple pods to bring it all together. You Will Lead with empathy and invest in the people around you. Mentor and grow senior engineers, remove roadblocks for your teammates, and cultivate an environment where everyone can do their best work. Shape the fr
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