As a Software program Engineer on the Avatar Market crew, Justin Park’s work has been essential in bringing layered clothes to the Avatar Store. We sat down with Justin to be taught extra about his function and get a glimpse into the common day for a Software program Engineer at Roblox.

What does a typical day appear to be for you as a Software program Engineer?

I’m the primary (and at the moment solely) Frontend Net Engineer for the Avatar Market crew, which manages all of the consumer personalization facets of Roblox, together with the Avatar Store, Discovery, and the Avatar Editor. My day-to-day tasks embody each sustaining our parts of the web site and introducing new user-facing options that the Avatar Market, Search & Discovery, and Financial system groups are engaged on. So, not solely do I work on growth, however I additionally coordinate with my total vertical—from my coworkers on the backend to these on Design and Product, amongst others.

What are among the initiatives you’ve labored on, and what challenges are you fixing for? 

Most likely the biggest undertaking I’ve labored on up to now was constructing out the online help wanted for layered clothes. This effort included all the things from working with design to improve the consumer interfaces with new clothes sorts in thoughts to rebuilding essential logic programs with the intention to help layered clothes, in addition to introducing a number of quality-of-life enhancements to the online expertise. Working carefully with backend engineers, I constructed out a brand new Thumbnail and Strive On system to view the brand new layered clothes property in your avatar.

Which firm worth do you are feeling most carefully aligned to, and the way does it have an effect on your work?

I really feel most aligned with “Take Duty.” Having joined the crew as our latest Frontend Net Engineer, there was a number of studying as we went, and that takes an excessive amount of duty and initiative. I realized the technical work itself, for positive, however I additionally wanted to stability our backlog of options with the wants of different groups steering the possession of the codebase. I used to be only a new grad after I began engaged on – after which began taking up – the Avatar Market Net codebase, so I wanted to be taught rapidly and make choices that had been greatest for our customers and the product. I all the time preserve on the entrance of my thoughts that I’m personally chargeable for the Avatar Market portion of the web site—and that helps to information me in my work.

What are you most excited for as you proceed your profession at Roblox?

I’m wanting ahead to being a bigger voice within the growth of the web site and rising as an engineer usually. Certainly one of my targets when initially on the lookout for a job was to influence the buyer in a tangible method, and being at Roblox has given me loads of alternatives to do this. Seeing how our product grew to become a beacon for our customers once they had been remoted makes me hopeful for a way our platform can proceed to enhance the lives of our customers sooner or later, and I’m excited to be part of it.

All for becoming a member of the Avatar Market crew at Roblox? We’re all the time on the lookout for new expertise, so verify us out at corp.roblox.com/careers and see if there’s a task that’s best for you.