Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Discord's growing Ads team as a Senior Software Engineer and revolutionize user interaction through innovative ad formats. This US-based role requires a highly technical and creative individual to design, build, and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure. You will collaborate with various engineering teams and stakeholders, architect maintainable code, and own projects end-to-end. The ideal candidate possesses a focus on impact, ownership, and a growth mindset, along with strong mentorship skills. A minimum of 4+ years of full-stack engineering experience is required. Discord offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• A focus on impact. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
• A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments
• A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to continuously improve
• A love of mentorship of fellow engineers, providing feedback and guidance on system architecture, API design, data modeling, and tradeoffs
• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain new Ads products and infrastructure from the backend to frontend
• Collaborate with engineers on the team, and other engineering teams such as Revenue Infrastructure & Core Product, and Core Tech
• Be a strategic partner with engineering, product, and cross functional leadership in designing, developing and scaling digital advertising features that drive revenue growth and enhance user engagement
• Architect elegant and maintainable code with focus on autonomy and support from the team
• Uphold a high product and technical quality bar while quickly launching and iterating on features
• Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning & teaching
• Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with Typescript, React, React Native, Python and/or Rust
• Experience with ad tech systems, with 2 years in relevant roles. If you’ve worked in similar roles we’d love to talk to you!
• Familiarity with experimentation and analysis
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Interest or passion for the Discord platform

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 to $201,500 + equity + benefits