Voldex Games
Lead Software Engineer - Brookhaven
Remote - Canada · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
GitSnowflakeData EngineeringData VisualizationIncident ResponseRoadmappingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Brookhaven is one of the largest games on Roblox, enjoyed by millions of players around the world every day.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small engineering team to deliver roadmap features predictably while balancing quality, velocity, technical risk, and business needs
- 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
- identify risks, escalate when needed, and drive action plans with the team
- 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
- Monitor game performance, live stability, crash rates, FPS, and post-release regressions; identify risks, escalate when needed, and drive action plans with the team
- Proven experience leading engineers through production feature delivery, including but not limited to: planning, estimation, implementation, QA, release, and post-launch support
- 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
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Requirements
- 3-5+ years of Roblox game development experience
- 1+ years of experience leading an engineering team of at least 3 people
- Strong technical judgement with the ability to guide architecture, implementation patterns, code quality, and technical trade-offs across a team
- Ability to coordinate release readiness, QA send-off, feature merges, incident response, and post-release follow-through
- Ability to work hands-on when needed while remaining accountable for team-level delivery, quality, and operational outcomes
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent experience working in a development team
- Game jam or modding experience
- Familiarity with backend systems, services, or data pipelines
- Strong understanding of player experience design and gameplay feel
- Permanent Voldex employees enjoy the following
Skills
- Voldex is an equal opportunity employer.
- Candidates are not expected to know our stack in advance, but Voldex's tech stack includes:
- Roblox Luau scripting, ROJO
- Analytics pipelines (Snowflake,Tableau)
- Collaboration tools: GitHub, Discord
- Permanent Voldex employees enjoy the following benefits:
- 💰 Competitive compensation - above-market salary + profit sharing + stock options
- ⛳️ Retirement benefits - company contribution to your retirement plan (401k, RRSP, Pension), in Canada, UK and USA!
- 🏖 Flexible PTO - vacations + Federal / Bank Holidays
- 🌎 Remote First - we have always been remote and will remain that way including work from home/anywhere
- 🎮 In-person get-togethers, virtual company-wide game events, Robux allowances, and so much more!
- 🎓Professional Development - Reimburse the costs of courses, materials, and anything to help further their training and growth
Compensation
- 💰 Competitive compensation - above-market salary + profit sharing + stock options
Benefits
- 🩺 Medical, dental, and vision benefits - depending on the country, there may be additional benefits (Life, ADD, etc…) such as Canada, UK and USA.
- Experience monitoring live game or product health through performance metrics, player feedback, incidents, regressions, crash rates, FPS, or related signals
Company info
- Voldex Acquires Brookhaven, most visited game on Roblox https://voldex.com/news/voldex-acquires-brookhaven-the-most-visited-game-on-roblox/
- Voldex is a leading gaming company focused on Roblox, the most exciting ecosystem in gaming today.
- We are home to several of Roblox's top games, including Brookhaven, Driving Empire, and NFL Universe Football.
- With over 160 million monthly active players across our games, we are one of the biggest Roblox studios by audience size.
- Founded in 2015, we have since grown to 95+ full-time remote team members across the globe.
- 🎉 Work with awesome people and impact millions of daily players
- Read about us here:
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