Key skills
LuaUnityUnreal EngineVersion ControlCommunicationProblem Solving
About this role
Role Overview
- Build, maintain, and modernize game systems inside our Roblox experience
- Work across the stack—from gameplay mechanics to infrastructure tools
- Bring a game designer's mindset to problem solving: user-focused, creative, and iterative
- Collaborate on cross-platform integrations between our web and in-game systems
- Contribute to the development of SDKs, internal tools, and pipelines
- Assist with architecture and best practices that scale as the game grows
- Collaborate with product, design, and content teams on rapid feature delivery
- Own your work from prototype to launch—performance, polish, and iteration
Requirements
- 3+ years experienced as software engineer with strong generalist skills across game and non-game systems
- Working experience with Lua or similar programming (Unity, Unreal, or custom engines)
- Professional experience in game development
- Shipped one or more games, apps or digital products
- Experience with modern development practices including continuous integration, continuous delivery, version control and testing
- Pragmatic and fast-moving—you know how to balance quality, performance, and timelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Organised with an ability to deliver tasks within tight deadlines.
- Persistent self-motivation, initiative, and drive.
- Working rights in Australia.
Tech Stack
- Lua
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
Benefits
- Work alongside our senior executives, who bring a wealth of knowledge from previous roles at SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitch, and YouTube.
- Work within a small, dynamic team backed by leading investors including Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Khosla Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, and King River Capital.
- Be part of a talented group of creatives, musicians, engineers that value initiative and imagination – we also love music and gaming.