Senior Software Engineer, Engagement

Discord•San Francisco, CA

3h•$196,000 - $245,000

About The Position

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord. We're looking for a highly motivated, mission-focused Senior Engineer to join our Engagement team. Engagement is responsible for improving the core value of Discord, including chatting, hanging out with friends, and expressing yourself. We work on improving core features like messaging, voice chat, user profiles, and app navigation. You will work across the full stack to build delightful and impactful features that are focused on making Discord the best place to play games and hangout with your friends online. We’re looking for engineers that have strong product sense and are fearless in jumping between technical stacks. You’ll be working with highly experienced engineering peers and cross functional partners.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
Specialized in building consumer-facing products on web and mobile platforms
Developed domain expertise in either web or mobile front-end (or both)
Eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and are comfortable working across the full stack when needed
Worked in a product team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
Strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX
Motivated to help your team members succeed and grow and learn from each other through empathetic feedback

Nice To Haves

A Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
Worked on React Native products

Responsibilities

Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact
Working with Product, Design, Data Science, UX Research, and Marketing to shape the team’s vision and roadmap
Helping find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery, and impact by collaborating with design and product partners