Software Engineer Internship, Discord
Design Systems
$63 per hour
Voice, video and text communication platform
Job no longer available
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$63 per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- You're excited to work with and figure out new technology, you like to learn by doing
- You have experience building in React – it can be a relatively simple side project or a school assignment but you can create a simple React application
- You are passionate about interaction design and accessibility
- You are interested in making building and modifying underlying systems to make small but sweeping UI changes in an application
What the job involves
- The Design Systems team develops the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord's products
- Designers and engineers on this team collaborate to accelerate product feature teams' ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, coherent, and high quality
- . This team sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it
- Help build the foundation of our design system and the tooling that makes it easy to use
- Write code that works across our iOS, Android, desktop, and web platforms
- Collaborate with Senior and Staff level engineers to grow your expertise and understand the needs and effect of your work
- Build internal tools to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent
Application process
- Internships are paid and are a minimum of 12 weeks, targeting a start date in June to accommodate varying school calendars
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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