Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Discord as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and help scale our technology and revenue-driving products. As a leader and senior individual contributor, you'll oversee the technical roadmap for our Consumer Revenue organization. You will collaborate with various teams to align technical strategy with revenue goals. This US-based role involves building and launching initiatives, mentoring junior engineers, and advising leadership on technical considerations. The position requires extensive software engineering experience and a strong understanding of multiple platforms. Discord offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
• You have a solid 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)
• You have experience leading large initiatives from inception to launch
• You have experience building and shipping product features. Especially features for products at large scale or in real-time applications
• You have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers (product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great
• You take 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

• Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers on the team to build the technical roadmap for the Consumer Revenue team encompassing Nitro, Shop, and Server revenue streams
• Focus on accelerating growth of existing revenue streams while laying the foundation for the development of new revenue streams and monetization opportunities
• Collaborate with staff engineers and partners across the organization to ensure technical agreement to other systems, products and vision
• Use your technical expertise to constantly improve and ensure your team achieves extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
• Partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success to ship new initiatives that unlock revenue streams
• Advise the leadership team on essential technical considerations related to ensuring engineering excellence and successful high impact key initiatives
• Partner with leadership on strategic planning and improve our systems and processes while upholding our workplace philosophy
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits