Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Discord's Notifications team as a Senior Engineer and be a founding member of a brand new team responsible for building a platform to send billions of notifications daily. You will build the platform enabling all teams to send delightful notifications, focusing on quality, performance, and impact. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, experience with metrics-driven teams and shared infrastructure, and comfort working across the full stack. You'll work with experienced peers and cross-functional partners. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and this role offers the chance to make a significant impact.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• You have experience in metrics driven teams and/or shared infrastructure
• You are comfortable jumping between backend and making changes to our frontend code
• You are eager to learn new languages and frameworks, and are comfortable working across the full stack when needed
• You’ve worked in team with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
• You have a strong product sense and take pride in sweating the details of great UX
• You are motivated to help your team members succeed and grow and learn from each other through empathetic feedback

Responsibilities

• Build the platform that enables all other teams in the company to send delightful notifications while delivering the maximum value to our users
• Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact
• Helping find the right solutions that balance delight, speed of delivery and impact

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a Discord user, and understand the core features and flow of Discord communications
• You have previously built a notifications or email orchestration system

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits