Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Discord's Ads team as a hands-on Engineering Manager to build and scale our rapidly growing ads platform. You will lead a full-stack engineering team, collaborating with various departments to create revenue-driving products. Responsibilities include team building, strategic planning, and ensuring high-quality technical solutions. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years of engineering management experience. This role offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Discord plays a vital role in the gaming community, and this position offers the chance to contribute to its future.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
• You take pride in delivering a delightful experience for end users, stakeholders and anyone you work with
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
• Code doesn't scare you - you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time

Responsibilities

• Work with Product, Design, Business Development and Marketing to drive your team’s vision and roadmap
• Build a team of engaged engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling best practices
• Collaborate on designing scalable technical solutions, and help to set the technical strategy of our ads architecture
• Instill a culture that both drives both impactful results and delights the end user
• Use your technical expertise and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
• Make sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
• Partner with your senior manager on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy

Preferred Qualifications

• You understand the gaming industry
• Prior experience with ad tech (especially tooling, measurement and targeting)
• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits