Software Engineer, Discord
Player Engagement
$160-180k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Job no longer available
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience as a software engineer with familiarity working in web and backend stacks
- Experience building user-facing features that drive engagement
- A focus on impact. Gaming is central to Discord's identity, but we have exciting opportunities to deepen these connections! You want to work with engineers, product managers, designers, and gaming partners to define great solutions to ambiguous problems
- Attention to detail and an eye for user experience. You care about shipping high quality features that delight our users and keep them engaged
- A growth mindset. You view mistakes as learning opportunities and build upon your successes. You challenge yourself and those around you to improve
- A strong sense of shared ownership. You don't believe that anything is someone else's problem and are willing to explore unfamiliar parts of the tech stack to understand how it works and develop new expertise
Desirable
- Personal experience using Discord for gaming communities
- Knowledge of gaming APIs or experience working with gaming data
- Familiarity with React, TypeScript, Python, or Rust
- Interest in gaming and gaming communities
What the job involves
- Gaming is at the heart of Discord's origin and remains central to our mission of creating spaces where people can genuinely connect, have fun hanging out, and build communities around shared interests
- Our Player Engagement team builds features that bring gaming experiences directly into Discord, creating deeper connections between players and their favorite games
- We believe integrating gaming experiences more deeply into Discord will drive the next generation of platform growth. Come join us and help build innovative gaming experiences for our users!
- Develop features that integrate gaming data and experiences directly into the Discord platform
- Collaborate with design, product, data science and other engineers to introduce new features used by our +180M monthly active users
- Work on systems that help users discover and engage with their gaming communities
- Participate at all levels of ideation, implementation and release
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 200M active users in 19M 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 X, 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 HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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