Discord

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Developer Success

Discord$196K — $220K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer.
  • Proficient in Python and Typescript/React; familiarity with Elixir, Rust, or C++ is a plus.
  • Experience with large data-based applications.
  • Ability to collaborate closely with design and product teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a first-principles approach.
  • Experience using AI coding tools to enhance productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality, impactful projects for game developers.
  • Collaborate with team members to write and review scalable code.
  • Lead projects from requirements to delivery.
  • Engage with game developer partners to understand their needs.
  • Coordinate with product managers and designers to navigate ambiguity.
  • Ensure performance and reliability standards for software features.
  • Elevate software quality through attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
  • Equity options included in compensation package.
  • A collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
Full Job Description
What You'll Be Doing
  • Delivering high-quality, high-impact projects that unlock new capabilities for game developers. This could include anything from our APIs, the Discord app, developer portal, realtime infrastructure, or even our C++ SDKs. Whatever it takes to get the important thing done.
  • Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code. You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people!
  • Leading projects through the whole life cycle: from gathering requirements, breaking down milestones into smaller pieces, building, then shipping the thing.
  • Listening and working with our game developer partners to better understand their needs in order to improve our tools. This could mean hopping into partner meetings with our Solutions Engineers or working with our DevRel team to answer their questions.
  • Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward.
  • Maintaining performance and reliability standards for our features.
  • Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write.

What you should have:
  • 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience with some parts of our tech stack. This is mainly Python and Typescript/React, but could include Elixir, Rust, or C++. You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones.
  • Experience building software that leverages large data based applications. Data plays a huge part in the work that we do and how we support our developer partners.
  • You have a sense for product and design. We don't operate in silos, and you'll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great.
  • A holistic approach to problem solving. You believe in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution. You learn from your mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team.
  • You actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity.

Bonus Points
  • Experience working with scale.
  • Experience with mobile development.
  • Direct experience leveraging a cloud platform (eg GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product.
  • Bonus bonus points: Experience with game development.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

About Discord

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities. The platform allows users to create and join servers, which are essentially chat rooms, and communicate with other users via text, voice, and video. Discord was founded in 2015 and has grown rapidly, with over 250 million registered users as of 2019. The company has raised $480 million in total funding.
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Size
800 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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