Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Revenue

Discord•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Discord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Consumer Revenue squads, which build premium experiences for millions of subscribers. The role focuses on products and surfaces such as Nitro, shop, boosting, and user identity, while preserving the core experience for free users and supporting Discord’s revenue and mission. This is a product engineering role involving work across the technical stack, from backend data modeling and API business logic to polished user-facing interfaces. The engineer will collaborate with Product, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and other teams, as well as infrastructure, platform, and product teams. The team ships features across web, Android, and iOS.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
Experience as a key technical contributor and having led sizable projects with significant impact on the team’s roadmap.
Full-stack proficiency.
Expertise in React/React Native and a solid grasp of Python backend development.
Product sense, empathy for internal and external users, and willingness to seek feedback.
Ownership mentality: ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and drive projects forward amid ambiguity.
Pragmatic approach to solving complex problems incrementally, rapidly prototyping, and operating with high integrity.
Understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization, with commitment to high-performance standards.
Growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.
Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area counties listed in the posting.

Nice To Haves

Experience on teams focused on growth, particularly revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems.
Track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision-making.
Success attracting new users, driving engagement, sustaining long-term retention, and optimizing consumer-facing features.
Experience optimizing performance at scale, particularly for consumer-facing applications.
Interest in or passion for the Discord platform.

Responsibilities

Build and improve premium Discord experiences such as Nitro, shop, boosting, and user identity.
Own projects end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, creating technical specifications, and working with Design to deliver user experiences.
Work with full-stack engineers to ship features across Web, Android, and iOS.
Lead complex initiatives from conception to completion in ambiguous environments.
Rapidly prototype features and synthesize insights through experimentation.