Senior Software Engineer - Growth at Discord in San Francisco, CA

Growth engineers at Discord are product-driven thinkers who are focused on helping new users create meaningful relationships with each other and the tens of millions of others who use our app every day. Our small, nimble growth team is passionate about developing well-designed, scalable software to create conversations, communities, and a place for belonging to our millions of users - while maintaining good work/life balance. We believe that a clean, delightful, interface is important to achieving the best user experience.

As growth engineers we are motivated to move our business forward by building a better product. We're a thoughtful group where compassion for our users is our guiding principle. We're a small team (less than 5 engineers) trying to achieve a lot, which means we have real ownership over our work.

To learn more about Discord Engineering, read our engineering blog here!

What you'll be doing

Build new features across our iOS, Android, Web apps and our marketing site. You will work on every platform and own the full funnel. It's ok if you don't know all of this right away!

Work on meaningful projects that allow for new and existing users to have more delightful conversations

Architect elegant and maintainable code with a focus on autonomy and support from the team

Work with design, data, and marketing teams to build meaningful additions to the app that help users be more successful

Use experiments and user research to iterate and learn

Fearlessly dive into the unknown alongside intelligent engineers challenging themselves and people around you

What you should have

We're a multi-platform team, so it's important to have a solid understanding of the development frameworks and fundamentals of one or more of our platforms: web (React, TypeScript, Python API), Android (Kotlin, RxJava), or iOS (React Native, Objective-C, Swift). We don't expect everyone to be an expert in all of these, and everyone has their specialties, but the more platforms you're comfortable with (or want to learn!), the faster we can move.

Experience building and shipping product features. We do far more than build landing pages

An eye for visuals. Design skills are not required but you can critique and modify existing designs

Experience building for experimentation, iteration, and driving metrics.

Experience working cross-functionally; particularly with marketing teams

Hunger to have an impact on our business

Bonus Points

Strong open-source leadership or contributions

Experience making hard tradeoffs between important goals to get the right things built quickly

Direct experience on a growth team