Senior Software Engineer, Activity Feed

Summary

Join us in our mission to make Discord the best place to discover and talk about games with your friends! We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Senior Software Engineer to help us build the next generation of social gaming features on Discord.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a understanding of the development frameworks and fundamentals of one or more of our platforms: web (React, TypeScript), Android (React Native, Kotlin), iOS (React Native, Objective-C, Swift), and backend (Python and some Elixir)
• Experience building and shipping experimental product features. Especially features for products at large scale or in real-time applications
• You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes
• You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve
• You have an eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
• You have a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems, and enjoy rapidly prototyping solutions
• You value your autonomy and operate with a high integrity

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leads and senior engineers on the team to drive projects on Activity Feed
• Provide feedback on the work of other engineers and mentor junior team members to learn and grow
• Partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Machine Learning to prototype, test, and release new features
• Drive technical excellence through direct and indirect contributions. Maintain a sharp focus on the quality of execution and deliver pixel perfect experiences to users
• Partner with leadership on strategic planning and improve our processes while upholding our workplace philosophy