Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox 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. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.

Avatar marketplace is a user facing product vertical team responsible for building everything needed for an open marketplace that allows users to sell and purchase virtual metaverse items. These items are used to customize users’ virtual identities which are the avatars they use across all virtual experiences on Roblox platform. It’s like an ebay for virtual items.

This role will have End-to-end ownership of the Web3 side of the avatar marketplace.

All projects have direct user impact to the marketplace that generates more than 30% of company revenue

With millions of items available in the marketplace and a fast growing user base, there is a wide range of engineering and product challenges under the marketplace ecosystem. Plenty of opportunities to design scalable, reliable, publicly facing systems and building complex features from scratch.

Exposure to a large variety of systems & technologies including search, recommendation, ML, data pipeline. On top of the infra and platform teams, collaborate with many cross-functional teams across the company, including purchase, transaction, ownership, content, moderation, avatar, search & discovery.

You Are:

A leader with a proven track record of strong people management skills and an ability to hire and grow a talented team of engineers
Able to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions across platforms (website, iOS, and Android)
Experienced, with 2+ years in an engineering management role and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field
Effective at driving projects and comfortable getting your hands dirty when needed
Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
Passionate about working on a large scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
Collaborative with excellent communication skills and follow-through.
Organized and analytical with the ability to track numerous separate threads to their appropriate resolution
Data-driven with an ability to deliver quality metrics and monitoring.

You Will:

Develop team and Web3 Roadmap, charter and vision. Own and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
Provide guidance on architecture and design, and define processes for launching products and features
Hire and provide mentoring to both junior and senior engineers in their progress on business and personal career goals
Develop and track key metrics for quality and team performance, drive their improvement over time, and communicate their status
Work with product managers on multiple projects concurrently and drive them successfully.

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
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass