Design Acceleration Engineer: Backend & AI Tooling

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 116,470 - 146,720; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

A leading gaming platform is seeking a Design Engineer to enhance its design systems and tools. You will architect scalable backend services, develop workflows for UI generation, and create internal tools that empower designers. With a focus on collaboration, the ideal candidate will have 3+ years of software engineering experience and be familiar with CI/CD and API design. This role is based in San Mateo and offers a competitive salary with additional equity compensation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in full-stack or backend development.
• Experience building scalable internal services.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration and AI protocols.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs connected to AI models.
• Develop workflows for natural language generation of UI components.
• Create internal tools and develop plugins for design utilities.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Systems architecture

API design

Full-stack or backend development

Cloud infrastructure

Figma plugin architecture

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

CI/CD pipelines

Roblox development

Job description

A leading gaming platform is seeking a Design Engineer to enhance its design systems and tools. You will architect scalable backend services, develop workflows for UI generation, and create internal tools that empower designers. With a focus on collaboration, the ideal candidate will have 3+ years of software engineering experience and be familiar with CI/CD and API design. This role is based in San Mateo and offers a competitive salary with additional equity compensation.