Senior Software Engineer, Discord
Web Platform
$196-220.5k
+ Equity
Voice, video and text communication platform
Open for applications
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196-220.5k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of working with JavaScript tools and the Node.js ecosystem
- Familiarity with and a desire to work across multiple programming languages (generally including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Go, and Swift)
- Experience developing and maintaining CLI tools and packages in JavaScript
- A strong sense for writing maintainable code and deliberately documenting for the future
- Understanding of all of the tools involved in frontend development and how they work together
- Familiarity and experience with localization in frontend applications
- Experience with directly maintaining or writing plugins for tools like bundlers, linters, or formatters in any language
Desirable
- Familiarity with React Native, related tools (Metro, Hermes), and bridging between JavaScript and native code
- Experience with CI/CD orchestration, Cloudflare workers, cloud storage providers, and other application deployment processes
What the job involves
- Our Web Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that power Discord's frontend development across web, desktop, and mobile platforms
- These systems support hundreds of engineers daily, process thousands of builds and deployments, and enable rapid feature delivery through robust tooling infrastructure
- Through developing and operating foundational JavaScript build systems - including linters, bundlers, package managers, and CI/CD automation - our work allows internal developers to ship features quickly and safely while ensuring optimal performance, correctness, and developer ergonomics
- This team also owns the localization and translation systems that power the strings and copy found across all of our apps and platforms
- As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will continuously improve our build tooling, developer workflows, and infrastructure - affecting the productivity of every frontend engineer at Discord and ultimately every user interaction on the platform!
- You'll be building and maintaining the tools, pipelines, and processes that keep frontend development at Discord fast, safe, and reliable
- Becoming an expert in JavaScript tooling and serving as a resource to help teams solve any and all problems they encounter during development
- Refactoring and upgrading the codebase to pay down tech debt, keep up with the state of the art in web development, and drive progress toward better maintainability
- Writing new and unique tools based on the specific needs of Discord’s frontend projects to make everything Just Work
- Digging deep into bundlers, linters, formatters, editor plugins, and more to optimize their performance, adopt and test new features early on, and continuously improve the experience for the developers using them
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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