Software Engineering Manager (Engine UI)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engine UI team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capabilities across all of Roblox. No matter the platform, be it mobile, desktop or consoles, you will help enable our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction

Lead the development on our C++ engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the world’s most popular games, as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio

Take lead in authoring and reviewing API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau; our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation

Manage Senior Engineers and provide technical guidance

Work closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision

Have fun learning about what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while supplying to industry leading technologies

Previous leadership experience or people management experience

Designs solutions that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying fields, such as engineers, game designers, and UI designers

Experience with cross platform projects, including consoles or mobile devices is a plus

Worked extensively in areas like Game Engines and UI

Systems level 3D math, pointers, templates, and raw blocks of memory are tools to write high-performance code, not your enemies

8+ years of professional development experience and 5+ years of management experience

Detailed designs, rigorous in handling edge cases, and diligent in automated testing

Fluent programming skills in C++ (Lua experience is a plus!)

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time