Senior Backend Engineer, Avatar Marketplace Scarcity

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 Backend Engineer on the Avatar Marketplace Scarcity team, you will lead the team in building an international marketplace for millions of virtual items that users acquire to customize their avatars and identities on Roblox platform. You will design, implement, and operate the frameworks and services you and the team build that help control the supply and demand of the Roblox economy.

The team is responsible for building systems that would help content creators become more successful sellers. With over 30 million daily active users (And Growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both sides of the marketplace.

You are:

• Experienced in designing and building backend systems behind consumer-facing API that handle a large number of concurrent users
• Solving scalability and reliability issues associated with different system architectures including micro-services
• Breaking down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
• An experienced backend engineer with 4+ years of work experience
• A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate
• Driven, Creative, and a Problem Solver

You will:

• Develop and design consumer-facing backend systems from scratch
• Build systems that address today's goal's with the flexibility to adapt and evolve to the future's needs
• Have an impact on the millions of users across the world and directly contribute to driving company revenue
• Focus on marketplace dynamics like price management, item availability, and quantity tracking
• Help build novel features like limited items (time or quantity), suggested pricing and dynamic fees, etc.
• Design and implement both externally and internally facing backend APIs that handle large numbers (millions) of concurrent requests/users

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.Annual Salary Range$218,540—$283,780 USD

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

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