Staff Software Engineer - Consumer Revenue

Discord•San Francisco, CA

4d•$248,000 - $279,000

About The Position

Discord is seeking a talented Staff Engineer to join its Consumer Revenue organization. This role will focus on building a sustainable business around Discord's community, working across premium experiences and core user identity. The engineer will contribute to shaping the technical strategy for products like Nitro, Shop, Server Boosting, and User Identity, aiming to deliver value to subscribers without compromising the experience for free users. This full-stack product engineering position involves cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data Science, Design, and Marketing teams. The work will span the entire technical stack, from backend data modeling and business logic in APIs to user-facing interfaces, with support from infrastructure, platform, and product teams.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading large initiatives from inception to launch that have had meaningful impact beyond your immediate team.
Full-stack proficiency, with expertise in React/React Native and a solid grasp of Python backend development.
Product sense, maintaining high empathy for users and seeking feedback.
Technical leadership, helping teams move with clarity and purpose, translating ambiguous goals into executable roadmaps.
Ownership mentality, thriving with autonomy and taking initiative.
Holistic approach to problem solving, thinking about the full system and learning from mistakes.
Performance-focused mindset, with a solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization.
Growth mindset, viewing challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities.

Nice To Haves

Growth and monetization experience, including work on revenue generation, product monetization, or user engagement systems.
Experimentation and data-driven decision making, with a strong track record of driving measurable impact through structured experimentation.
Optimization at scale, with experience identifying and solving bottlenecks in consumer-facing applications with large, active user bases.
Passion for Discord, using the platform, caring about the community, and being motivated by making Discord better.

Responsibilities

Accelerate growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for new monetization opportunities across surfaces like Nitro, Shop, Boosting, and User Identity.
Own complex initiatives end to end by partnering with Product to refine requirements, create technical specs, and work closely with Design to execute and deliver best-in-class user experiences.
Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partners across the organization to drive technical alignment across systems, products, and long-term vision.
Advise leadership on critical technical considerations tied to engineering excellence and high-impact initiatives, and partner on strategic planning to improve how we build and operate.
Lead a full-stack engineering work across Web, Android, and iOS, setting the technical bar for your team and helping them achieve it.
Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation, thriving in ambiguous problem spaces where the right path isn't always obvious.