Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join us in our mission to build the app platform that inspires the next generation of developers at Discord. We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the technical roadmap for Apps and Activities, working across APIs, SDKs, and Developer tools.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead and/or engineering manager
• Strong technical depth with JavaScript, with expertise or a desire to learn TypeScript and React
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally
• You actively seek out opportunities to mentor, coach, and sponsor other engineers in their career growth
• A strong product sense, maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users and seek feedback from them about your work
• A strong sense of development ergonomics, and take pride in understanding your engineer customers
• Comfort working with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to better define complex problems, figure out solutions, and then execute on them
• The ability how to strike a balance between speed and quality of features to create durable technology. You thrive on building scalable systems that are robust, failure-resistant, and easy to maintain
• A practice of keeping up with industry trends and assessing new technologies that can help us better solve problems

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers to build and improve upon the technical roadmap for Discord’s Developer Platform
• Work across Platform Ecosystem teams to design and build SDKs, APIs and platform services
• Research and develop important new parts of the platform. Scrutinize and reason on technology and architecture choices, identify tradeoffs and challenges, and get support from the rest of the team
• Collaborate with other staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical understanding to other systems, products, and vision
• Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release
• Mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Discord
• Have a genuine say in the details, and have fun doing it!