Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people for gaming and community engagement. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead full-stack engineering efforts focused on premium experiences and user identity, driving technical strategy and collaboration across teams.
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
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Full-stack proficiency
- Product sense
- Technical leadership
- Ownership mentality
- Holistic approach to problem solving
- Performance-focused mindset
- Growth mindset
- Growth and monetization experience
- Experimentation and data driven decision making
- Optimization at scale
- Passion for Discord