Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Discord's Social Layer of Gaming team as a highly technical Engineering Manager! This role focuses on building tools for game developers to integrate Discord into their games, enhancing the gaming experience. You will build and mentor high-performing engineering teams, collaborate cross-functionally, and define the technical strategy for the SDK's architecture. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software engineering and management experience, particularly with C++ SDKs. This is a key role within Discord's company strategy, offering a chance to make a significant impact on the future of gaming. The position is remote and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Experience building C++ SDKs either as an engineer or manager
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally. You have opinions but can discuss them generously with other people with all kinds of backgrounds
• Comfortability with ambiguity and are excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them
• Motivation to help your team members succeed and experience growing engineers
• 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

Responsibilities

• Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers
• Work cross-functionally with other engineering teams, Product, Design, Global Partnerships, and Marketing to define your team’s vision and roadmap by understanding the needs of Game Developers and their players
• Collaborate on designing scalable technical solutions, and help to set the technical strategy of our SDK’s architecture
• Collaborate with your engineers to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
• Find the right degree of process that makes your team productive and reach greater heights
• Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skills and goals
• Partner with your senior manager on strategic planning and to improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy

Preferred Qualifications

• You have some experience with game development
• Bonus bonus points if you have experience with Unreal or Unity
• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $223,000 to $268,000