Senior Software Engineer, Discord
Design Systems
$196-220.5k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
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Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$196-220.5k
+ 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
- 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools
- 1+ years experience working on a design system
- Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development. We're a cross-platform team and believe that engineers should be empowered to work across a variety of tech stacks. We'll support you in learning the stacks you don't know!
- A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces
- Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers
- Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit
- A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level
- Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale
What the job involves
- The Design Systems team is a cross-functional team that ensures design quality across all facets of UI, content, and graphics
- We develop the core primitives and standards that engineers and designers use to build Discord’s products
- Designers and engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product feature teams’ ability to ship new features with UI that are accessible, consistent, and high quality
- This team also sets the standard for accessibility on Discord, and supports other engineering teams in achieving it
- As such, the Design Systems team plays a critical role enabling Discord to achieve its core mission: creating a space for everyone to find belonging
- Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time
- Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web)
- Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent
- Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation
- Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning
- Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives
- Working with Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes
- Reviewing code and designs
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.
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 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 HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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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