Senior Software Engineer, Discord
Revenue Growth
$183-201k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183-201k
+ 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
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and specialized in building and scaling consumer-facing products on web and mobile platforms. It's important to have a solid understanding of the development frameworks and fundamentals of one or more of our platforms: web (React, TypeScript), Android (React Native, Kotlin), iOS (React Native, Objective-C, Swift), and backend (Python and some Elixir)
- You have a strong product sense. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your internal and external users, and seek feedback from them about your work. You take pride in sweating the details of great UX
- You stay up to date on relevant technology trends and developments. You view challenges and mistakes as learning opportunities while building upon your successes. You push yourself and those around you to improve
- Leadership: You are motivated to help your team members succeed and grow and learn from each other through empathetic feedback
- You love business impact. You get excited seeing numbers go up (or down!) as a result of your work. You have a sharp eye for what changes can bring a product from good to great. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to define great solutions to business problems
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a technical, full-stack and mission-focused engineer to help ideate, implement and launch revenue driving products
- The Revenue Growth org is responsible for contributing to a majority of Discord's incremental revenue goals.
- You will join a full-stack team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord
- Design, build and maintain new Revenue products on our iOS, Android and Web apps. Collaborate with engineers on the team, and other engineering teams such as Revenue Infrastructure & Core Product, to understand user behavior & needs and build products to drive Revenue
- Work collaboratively with PMs, Data Scientists and Designers to launch revenue products and bring marketing campaigns to life
- Architecture elegant and maintainable code with focus on autonomy and support from the team. Uphold a high product and technical quality bar while quickly launching and iterating on features. Introduce coding and operational best practices to the team; always be learning & teaching
- Work with analytics and experimentation frameworks to quickly experiment with revenue growth ideas and develop deeper understanding of the features we ship
- 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
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.
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Insights
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 values
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
- Compassion
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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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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