Senior Backend Engineer - Ledger & Financial Systems

Speedrun Talent Network; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ledger team. You will design, build, and operate the ledger services that record every movement of value, balancing books and ensuring auditability for a global economy.

You have 4+ years in backend engineering, experience with microservices and APIs, and a background in financial infrastructure. Collaboration across finance and product is essential as you improve performance, correctness, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging distributed systems.
• Experience managing projects, planning and executing work across multiple workstreams.
• Strong collaboration skills; ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in financial infrastructure, ledgers, or double-entry systems is highly desirable.
• Experience with large-scale data or analytical systems (OLAP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with Finance, product, and economy engineering teams to ensure correct value movement at the source.
• Architect, design, implement, and operate ledger services recording value movement on Roblox.
• Identify and address correctness, performance, auditability, and operational risks in financial systems.
• Design idempotent, exactly-once write paths and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Own both write and read paths of the ledger from the same source of truth.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Project management

Mentoring

Bachelor's degree

Financial infrastructure

OLAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ledger team. You will design, build, and operate the ledger services that record every movement of value, balancing books and ensuring auditability for a global economy.

You have 4+ years in backend engineering, experience with microservices and APIs, and a background in financial infrastructure. Collaboration across finance and product is essential as you improve performance, correctness, and reliability.