Engineering Manager, Discord
Financial Platform
$223-245.5k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Open for applications
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$223-245.5k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- You have 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and have successfully managed a team of 5+ Software Engineers
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You have a proven track record leading platform teams and you understand the tradeoffs necessary to enable client teams while simultaneously improving your own domain
- You are a first principles thinker who can work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions
- You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience growing engineers
- You are passionate about coaching and leading other engineers, but secretly love to roll up your sleeves and getting elbow deep in code when the opportunities arise
What the job involves
- We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Engineering Manager to lead the Financial Platform team
- You’ll be responsible for business-critical revenue accounting, tax, and payout integrations, along with supporting new products such as a virtual currency
- You will lead a full-stack team of driven engineers to ensure Discord’s revenue operations are transparent, scalable, and accurate, and accelerate product development teams by abstracting hard financial engineering problems. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog!
- Build and lead an exceptional team of engaged engineers by coaching, hiring, and fostering a culture of ownership and impact
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Financial Platform by collaborating with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Accounting, Legal, and Tax
- Collaborate with the team to design solutions that support existing revenue lines at scale and enable rapid growth of new products
- Use your technical and domain expertise to ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set
- Make sound, first-principle decisions around resourcing with clear rationale to partners and team members
- Work with other Engineering leaders to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 150 million active users in 19 million communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and Twitter, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Citron
(CEO)Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.
Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
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