Senior Backend Engineer – Ledger & Financial Systems

Showcify, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale the ledger systems that underpin its global economy. You will architect and operate services that record every movement of value, ensuring exactness, auditability, and performance across distributed components.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Finance and economy teams, designing robust write/read paths, and maintaining high code quality and test coverage. Salaries reflect locality and market demand.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging in distributed systems.
• Experience managing projects across workstreams.
• Strong collaboration, mentoring, and cross-team leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• Experience in financial infrastructure or ledgers is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Work with Finance and product to ensure value is correct at source.
• Architect, design, implement, and operate ledger services for Roblox.
• Identify and address correctness, performance, auditability, and operational risks.
• Design idempotent, exactly-once write paths and reconciliation.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Project management

Collaboration & mentoring

Ledger/financial infrastructure

OLAP/data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Job description

Roblox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale the ledger systems that underpin its global economy. You will architect and operate services that record every movement of value, ensuring exactness, auditability, and performance across distributed components.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Finance and economy teams, designing robust write/read paths, and maintaining high code quality and test coverage. Salaries reflect locality and market demand.