Staff Software Engineer, Discord

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including experience leading cross-functional projects as an individual contributor
• Strong expertise in at least a couple of the major parts of our stack: Python, TypeScript/React, and mobile with React Native. You're comfortable switching between stacks and have a track record of picking up new ones quickly
• A product sense that goes beyond implementation. You'll be collaborating with PMs and designers daily, and we need someone who can push back, suggest alternatives, and help shape what we build
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation. This team ships A/B tests, reads results, and changes direction. You should be someone who thrives in that environment rather than waiting for a fully-baked spec
• A bias toward solving problems from first principles. You learn from what didn't work and help the team do the same

Desirable

• The Social Commerce team is building a storefront for game developers to sell directly to their players in Discord
• This is a new initiative that has seen a lot of early success, and we're expanding it to support more games and platforms
• But we're not just building a shop — Discord is where friends already hang out, play together, and share the things they love
• We are building commerce experiences that no other platform can: purchasing that's social, contextual, and embedded in the games people already play and places they already spend time
• Building cross-platform purchase flows, social gifting experiences, and commerce surfaces that meet users where they already are — in voice, in chat, on mobile
• Owning projects end-to-end: scoping, designing, building, shipping, and iterating based on experiment results. You'll run A/B tests, read the data, and make the call on what to do next
• Working directly with game studio partners to understand their needs, answer technical questions, and improve the tools we build for them
• Collaborating closely with product, design, and game developers to cut through ambiguity on a product where the playbook is still being written
• Partnering with other product teams to design shared commerce primitives that work across Discord
• Raising the bar for the engineers around you through code review, technical design input, and leading by example on quality and ownership