Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Roblox is a gaming platform with millions of daily active users from around the world. But it’s also much more than that. It’s a place where people come to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. We’re building the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Economy Revenue and Payments team, you will play a key role in building and optimizing incentive systems that drive user spending and engagement, directly contributing to Roblox's rapid expansion and the financial well-being of our vibrant community. 

This team owns the critical payments integration across every platform Roblox supports, processing millions of transactions daily. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and scale these essential systems. You'll collaborate with a talented team dedicated to engineering excellence and tackling complex challenges at scale

You Will:

• Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and designers to define requirements and roadmap.
• Design and architect scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, message queuing systems, distributed databases, and cloud-based solutions.
• Drive engineering vision for highly scalable and cutting-edge solutions.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to design and build new user-facing features related to payments on Roblox, including new innovative payment flows like gifted purchases, as well as integrating new payment methods
• Design and implement incentive programs and features to encourage user spending and engagement within the Roblox economy
• Help recruit future talent for the team.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience developing and supporting highly available and large-scale systems in production.
• Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated complicated technical solutions. You can make tradeoffs between short and long-term goals and get the buy-ins from the right stakeholders.
• Product Oriented: You have a proven record of understanding and bridging the gap between product and engineering vision. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving complex problems.
• Result Oriented: You identify ways to improve your and the team’s efficiency. You understand the need to move fast while making the right trade-offs.
• Team Oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You lift your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
• Cross-functional by design: You work well with cross-functional peers, communicating effectively and driving the project forward despite uncertainties.