Senior Software Engineer, Discord

• A strong product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback to improve the experience. You can demonstrate a track record of shipping projects from conception to release
• A focus on impact. You have shipped products with clear metrics goals and had a measurable positive impact on customers
• A sense of ownership. You believe in solving a problem completely rather than simply shipping a solution. You operate autonomously and follow through on your commitments
• An expertise in web development. You have a deep understanding of React, CSS, and Typescript
• 4+ years of experience

Desirable

• We’re looking for a technical and product-focused engineer to help ideate, implement and launch user-facing audio/video products
• The AV org is responsible for voice & video calls and screen sharing; both of which bring people together
• You will join a team of engineers working across platforms to build products to improve the Discord call experience
• To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog
• Design, build and maintain new products in the call experience on our desktop and mobile platforms. Collaborate with engineers on the team and data scientists to understand user behavior & needs and build products to delight users
• Advocating for improvements and new features, and prioritizing them on the team’s roadmap
• Work with analytics, experimentation frameworks, and data science peers to quickly experiment with UX ideas to demonstrate user-facing improvements
• Own projects end to end — you’ll be responsible for working with Product and other stakeholders to refine requirements, creating technical designs and specs, implementing changes, and seeing projects through to launch and maintenance
• Building delightful products with a very high bar for quality, performance, and a focus on impact