Senior Software Engineer, Payments - Roblox
San Mateo, CA
About the Job
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 Senior Software Engineer on the Payments & Fraud team, you will guide the innovation of payments and fraud solutions and products in the metaverse. You will integrate Roblox experiences with several different payment provider flows, supporting millions of real-money transactions, adding up to billions of dollars in bookings per year.
You will:
- Report to the Engineering Manager.
- Design and implement new, cutting-edge features across various purchasing flows that cover different environments and device types globally.
- Design and build the industry leading products and solutions used by hundreds of millions of users.
- Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions.
- Organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.
- Collaborate with numerous teams to build the world's best application.
You have:
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping products to production in backend domain
- 4+ years of experience working on large distributed systems
- Knowledgeable with REST, GRPC, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
- Passion about working on large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
- Previous payments systems development (bonus but not required)
- Curiosity to learn new technologies and systematically grow your skills.
You are:
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction.
- Versatile: You can shift focus and enjoy working outside your comfort zone. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
- User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.