Senior Software Engineer, Shared App Platform

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Healthcare coverage

Onsite meals & facilities

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Consumer Apps team to build the foundational shared platform for the Roblox app across iOS, Android, desktop, and console. You will architect libraries, UI engines, navigation, and app-wide capabilities, working with React, React Native, and AI coding agents to ensure fast, safe rollouts.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance benchmarks, and advocate for cross-team collaboration, shaping the developer experience and platform standards

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience building and shipping production-grade client applications.
• Deep hands-on experience with React or React Native.
• Proven track record designing shared UI platforms or client frameworks.
• Strong profiling, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to document architecture and communicate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve core client frameworks across mobile, desktop, and consoles.
• Ship app-wide features such as dynamic theming and global navigation updates.
• Diagnose startup latency, memory leaks, and frame drops using telemetry and tracing.
• Manage safe rollouts using feature flags, staged rollouts, and canary deployments.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to standardize components.
• Leverage AI agents to accelerate development workflows.

Skills

React / React Native

Performance profiling

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Lua

React Navigation

SDUI

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Consumer Apps team to build the foundational shared platform for the Roblox app across iOS, Android, desktop, and console. You will architect libraries, UI engines, navigation, and app-wide capabilities, working with React, React Native, and AI coding agents to ensure fast, safe rollouts.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance benchmarks, and advocate for cross-team collaboration, shaping the developer experience and platform standards