Lead Software Engineer - Brookhaven

Voldex is a leading gaming company focused on Roblox, home to several of Roblox's top games. As the Lead Software Engineer, you will lead a small engineering team to deliver features and improvements for Brookhaven, ensuring high-quality player experiences while mentoring engineers and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a small engineering team to deliver roadmap features predictably while balancing quality, velocity, technical risk, and business needs
• Be accountable for the delivery of features owned by direct reports, ensuring work is well-scoped, estimated, sequenced, implemented, tested, merged, and released effectively
• Own technical estimates produced by the team, ensuring estimates are realistic, account for dependencies and risks, and support reliable roadmap planning
• Partner closely with product managers, producers, QA, design, art, and other stakeholders to align feature execution with business goals, player experience expectations, and technical constraints
• Monitor game performance, live stability, crash rates, FPS, and post-release regressions; identify risks, escalate when needed, and drive action plans with the team
• Set and enforce standards for code quality, maintainability, implementation, and review across the team
• Mentor engineers on technical execution, code quality, player experience, Roblox/game platform constraints, and engineering judgment
• Proactively improve game and feature quality by identifying opportunities to improve responsiveness, polish, stability, performance, and overall player experience
• Collaborate with the manager and senior engineers to define technical initiatives, roadmap risks, operational improvements, and technical priorities for the game
• Support people leadership responsibilities, including onboarding, structured feedback, performance documentation, growth planning, and identifying gaps against the levelling framework

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years of Roblox game development experience
• 1+ years of experience leading an engineering team of at least 3 people
• Demonstrated mastery of Roblox game development
• Shipped games or features on Roblox or similar platforms
• Proven experience leading engineers through production feature delivery, including but not limited to: planning, estimation, implementation, QA, release, and post-launch support
• Strong technical judgement with the ability to guide architecture, implementation patterns, code quality, and technical trade-offs across a team
• Experience monitoring live game or product health through performance metrics, player feedback, incidents, regressions, crash rates, FPS, or related signals
• Ability to coordinate release readiness, QA send-off, feature merges, incident response, and post-release follow-through
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain priorities, risks, trade-offs, and technical expectations to product, design, QA, art, producers, engineers, and leadership
• Ability to work hands-on when needed while remaining accountable for team-level delivery, quality, and operational outcomes
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent experience working in a development team
• Game jam or modding experience
• Experience building or scaling live game systems (economy, progression, multiplayer systems)
• Familiarity with backend systems, services, or data pipelines
• Strong understanding of player experience design and gameplay feel