About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve premium Discord experiences such as Nitro, shop, boosting, user identity, and more.
- Own projects 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.
- Work with a team of full-stack engineers to ship new features across Web, Android, and iOS.
- Lead complex initiatives from conception to completion, thriving in ambiguous environments.
- Rapidly prototype new features and synthesize insights through experimentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- You’re a key technical contributor to your team and have led sizable projects which have had a big impact on your team’s roadmap.
- Full-stack proficiency: expert in React/React Native with a solid grasp of Python backend development. We work primarily in the web (React, TypeScript), mobile (React Native, with a small amount of Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift), and backend (Python).
- Product sense: maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work.
- Ownership mentality: thrive with autonomy, take initiative to drive projects forward, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
- Pragmatic approach: find incremental approaches to solving complex problems, enjoy rapidly prototyping solutions, value your autonomy and operate with high integrity.
- Performance-focused mindset: solid understanding of React performance and client-server performance optimization.
- Growth mindset: view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes.
Conditions
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,000 + equity + benefits.
- Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. Relocation assistance may be available.
- For this role, there is no formal requirement to work from the office.