Director, Engineering

Summary

Join Discord's engineering leadership team as a Director of Engineering, leading multiple teams responsible for the core client experience. You will build and mentor teams of engineers and managers, focusing on mobile performance and quality to drive growth. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering and engineering management, with a deep understanding of React Native and mobile performance. You'll collaborate across departments, manage processes, and contribute to the overall improvement of Discord's engineering organization. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits, and is remote.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and have maintained technical depth as a leader
• You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed groups of 3+ Engineering Managers and 15+ Software Engineers
• You have 2+ years of experience managing other Managers
• You enjoy coming up with pragmatic solutions to concrete problems using first principles thinking
• You deeply understand mobile performance and React Native and are excited by the challenge of delivering an incredible product to 200 million users
• You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love getting elbow deep in architecture design when the opportunities arise
• You keep up with the industry trends and identify new tools to use to solve technical problems — and are excited to push the envelope

Responsibilities

• Build and lead multiple teams of highly-engaged managers and engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact
• Collaborate with peers across the business to drive meaningful business impact in user engagement metrics by delivering on mobile performance and quality goals
• Work with best-in-class talent, inside and outside of Discord, to set the bar for what is possible with React Native
• Drive public perception by working with teams like Marketing and Comms to talk about the work your teams are doing
• Manage processes and use your technical expertise to continually improve the team and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results
• Work with other Directors to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining and building new teams and departments from scratch
• A background owning critical performance metrics at a company level
• C++ and Native development experience, particularly on mobile
• Experience hiring for fast-growing startups

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $311,000 to $342,000 + equity + benefits
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