3 hours ago
Base Salary
$196k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship high-impact tools and capabilities for game developers across APIs, the Discord app, developer portal, realtime infrastructure, and C++ SDKs.
- Write, review, and maintain elegant, scalable, high-quality code used by millions of people.
- Lead projects through requirements gathering, milestone planning, implementation, and launch.
- Work with game developer partners, Solutions Engineers, and Developer Relations to understand needs and answer questions.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner managers to resolve ambiguity and deliver effective solutions.
- Maintain performance and reliability standards while continually raising software quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience with Python and TypeScript/React, or with Elixir, Rust, or C++, with the ability to switch across stacks or learn new technologies.
- Experience building software that leverages large-data applications.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and partner teams and apply a holistic, first-principles approach to problem solving.
- Experience with scale, mobile development, cloud platforms such as GCP, Amazon, or Azure, or game development is a bonus.
- Active use of AI coding tools to improve productivity.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are included.
- The position is a full-time role with a stated US base salary range.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Discord
Discord builds a voice, video, and text chat platform organized around servers for gaming and interest-based communities. It monetizes through Nitro subscriptions, server subscriptions, and digital goods, and offers a developer platform for bots and apps. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by over 200 million people monthly.